This document defines and provides examples of basic grammar terminology including sentences, clauses, phrases and their components. It explains that sentences are composed of clauses and phrases, where clauses contain both a subject and verb and phrases act like a single part of speech but do not contain both a subject and verb. Various types of phrases are classified based on their head word, such as prepositional, noun, verb, adjectival and adverbial phrases. Being able to identify clauses and phrases in sentences is important for understanding sentence structure and punctuation.
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Morph: A morph is simply the phonetic representation of a morpheme, how the morpheme is said.
Morpheme: Smallest meaningful unit, cannot be further divided or analyzed
Allomorph: Allomorphs are different forms of the same morpheme, or basic unit of meaning.These can be different pronunciations or different spellings.
A clause comes in four types; independent, dependent, relative or noun clause. Every clause has at least a subject and a verb. An independent clause, also called a main clause, is a clause that can stand on its own. It contains all the information necessary to be a complete sentence.
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1. Sentences, Clauses and Phrases How to Know One When You See One Laurie Miller | George Mason University
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3. Basic Grammar Terminology …continued Part of Speech Function or "job" Example Pronoun replaces a noun He ate dinner. Preposition links a noun to another word I gave a bone to the dog. Conjunction joins clauses or words Peter read the paper and listened to the radio while he ate dinner.
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9. More Adverbial Examples Peter was a student last year . Peter drive quickly . Peter went to New York to visit his aunt . When Where Why How
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12. Peter ate dinner while he watched TV . Subject Verb Object We have the original subject Peter with its verb ate and its object dinner . But the sentence continues with a second subject, this time he , a second verb, watched , and a second object, TV .
13. Clause Peter ate dinner . He watched TV . Our one sentence is basically two “mini” sentences hooked together by the word while . while he watched TV . “ Mini” sentences, units of S V / O , C or A , within a sentence are called clauses .
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15. A bigger sentence … After exercising, Peter ate dinner while he watched TV. In addition to the two clauses we are familiar with, this sentence has the added words after exercising . The words after exercising work together to give extra information about the clauses, but they do not form a clause. They form a phrase .
16. Phrase One way to define a phrase is to say it is a group of words that “belong together” in terms of meaning but do not have both a subject and a verb . Phrase = a group of words that acts like one word Phrase S + V Another way to think of a phrase is to think of how it works within a sentence. When you think of a phrase this way, you can define it as:
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19. Phrase continued – testing to see if you have a phrase The second phrase, , at the end of the street can be replaced with a one word adjective such as large . The large gym is new . at the end of the street large This replacement of the group of words by one word demonstrates the idea that a phrase is a group of words acting as one word. The gym at the end of the street is new .
20. It also serves as a way to classify phrases. This part of the phrase that “holds” its function within the greater sentence is called the head . In English, the head is often the first word of the phrase. Phrase testing - continued The one word that a phrase can be reduced to lets you know its function within the sentence.
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22. Putting it all together Sentences are composed of clauses and phrases. Some sentences have only one clause and no phrase: Peter ate dinner . Others have two or more clauses: Because Peter ate dinner while he watched TV , he got indigestion . 1 2 33
23. Putting it all together continued Other sentences have clauses and phrases. After exercising at the gym across the street, Peter ate dinner in the kitchen while he watched TV .
24. Using Clauses and Phrases Once identifying clauses and phrases becomes easy for you, you will begin to notice how good writers put their sentence together. Additionally, once you become comfortable finding clauses and phrases in writing, you can begin to work with the punctuation rules for correctly and effectively putting clauses and phrases together. For now, simply test out your knowledge of sentences, clauses and phrases.