phrase

• The phrase is a group of words that act as a unit in the sense and the grammar, and built round a verb.
The phrase may have different functions in a sentence. They are used as subjects, objects, complements, modifiers, or adverb.
Understanding phrasal patterns helps us to discuss and explain the effect of our own and the writing of others. In a sentence:
Strange green creatures with bobbing heads talking.
• The phrase is two or more words that do not contain a subject - verb pair is required to form a clause. Phrases can be very short or very long. Here are two examples:
• After lunch
• After creeping down the stairs and across the street to scare dying Mrs Philpot busy pruning rose bushes
  . The phrase is two or more words that do not contain a subject - verb pair is required to form a clause. Phrases can be very short or very long. Here are two examples:
Postprandial
After creeping down the stairs and across the street to scare dying Mrs Philpot busy pruning rose bushes
Certain phrases have specific names based on the type of words that begin or organize a group of words: noun phrase, verb phrase, prepositional phrase, infinitive phrase, phrase participle, gerund phrases, and absolute phrases.www.gunadarma.ac.id