2. • Is a group of related words and does not have the subject
and a verb.
• It expresses single idea but do not usually form a complete
sentence.
walking the dog cleaning the window
before the first test after the flood
between the two mountains broken into thousand of pieces
because of her sweet smile in our town plaza
PHRASE
3. • contains a noun and any associated modifiers.
the long and winding road new female teacher
noun phrase newly elected officers
any related modifiers legislative laws
Noun Phrase
4. IDENTIFY THE NOUN PHRASE IN EACH SENTENCE BELOW.
1. The nation’s first state university, University of the Philippines, was
founded in 1908.
2. In September 1910, the first issue of the UP Folio came off the press.
3. In 1920, the Philippine Herald, the first Filipino daily in English, was
founded.
4. It was one and only three tertiary-level campus publications in the
Philippines released weekly.
5. It paid for literary work it published.
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5. consists of a preposition, its object (noun or pronoun) and any words
modifying the object.
Prepositional phrase usually tell when or where:
in an hour in the sun against the side
outside the shop by the river in the afternoon
Prepositional Phrase
6. about above across after against along
among around as before behind below
beneath between beyond but by down
during except for from in inside
into near of off on out
outside over past through to toward
under until up with within without
Words often used as prepositions
7. IDENTIFY THE PREPOSITIONAL PHRASES IN EACH SENTENCE.
1. The Manila Tribune was established in the same year.
2. Other journals followed and there was a market, although still very limited, for
Filipino literary output in English.
3. In 1925, A.V. H. Jartendorp became the editor-publisher of the Philipppine
Education Magazine.
4. The hills across the valley of Cana were long and white.
5. They sat at a table in the shade, outside the shop.
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8. is made up of a main verb and its helping
verbs.
VP
I was asked three questions. Have you composed those
poems?
MV HV MV
Usually the words in a verb phrase are next to one another.
Sometimes, the parts of a verb phrase are separated by words that
are not part of the verb phrase.
I have waited all afternoon for the bus.
Verb Phrase____
Verb Phrase
9. IDENTIFY THE VERB PHRASES IN THE FOLLOWING
PARAGRAPH.
In 1927, the UP Writers Club was founded and began publishing the
Literary Apprentice, which has become the most prestigious college literary
publication in the country. In the same year, the Bureau of Education
published Philippine Prose and Poetry, which was prescribed as a high
school textbook. Furthermore, Jose Garcia Villa introduced Walt Whitman to
the Philippines with the publication of his unconventional “Man Songs”. This
has brought in a wave of experimentation and rapid development.
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10. • Unlike a phrase, a clause is a group of related words that has
both a subject and a predicate.
• The two major types of clauses are main clauses and
subordinate clauses.
Clauses
11. • The main clause (sometimes called independent clause) must
contain a subject and a verb and can stand by itself as a
complete sentence.
Main Clause / Independent
Clause
12. • The subordinate clause (sometimes called dependent clause)
has a subject and a verb but is only a part of a sentence .
Subordinate/Dependent Clause
13. A subordinate clause is a dependent clause
because it depends on the rest of the sentence
for its meaning.
A subordinate clause is easy to find in a
sentence because it is introduced by a
subordinating conjunctions:
While we are driving to the farm, we talked about
many things.
Subordinating Conjunction Subordinate Clause
14. Most Common Subordinating
Conjunctions in English
TIME CAUSE AND EFFECT OPPOSING/
CONTRASTING IDEAS
CONDITIONAL IDEAS
after because although if
before since though unless
since now that even though only if
until as whereas whether or not
till in order that while even if
when so as if in case (that)
while that than once
whenever so that as
15. IDENTIFY THE MAIN CLAUSE AND SUBORDINATE CLAUSE IN EACH
SENTENCE BELOW.
1. Although marriages of teenagers were quite common, other
countries did not readily accept the trend.
2. In Ancient Rome, people didn’t marry because they were in love.
3. Most rich girls seemed to marry at a younger age whereas poor
girls marry a little later.
4. Since women were under the jurisdiction of their fathers, they
then married early.
5. Fiction was marked by imitation of the style of storytelling
when the Americans came.
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