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Phrase

In grammar, a phrase — called an expression in some contexts — is a group of one or more words acting as a grammatical unit. It can be used within a sentence, so this means that a phrase can be treated as a unit within a larger structure. For instance, the English sentence "the squirrel is very happy" is a clause phrase which contains the noun phrase…

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Heads and dependents

HeadAdverb phraseBelowPreposition phraseSubordinator
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Overview

GrammarWordsSentenceClause phraseNoun phrase
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Phrase trees

TreesAdjectiveDeterminerNounVerb
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Variation among theories of syntax

Non-finite verb
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Variation among theories of syntax

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Phrase

Nodes63
Edges62
Triples57
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.031746
Components1

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Phrase

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related to References · 25
Phrase → An, Analyzing, Bare, Cambridge University Press, Finch, Is Minimalism, Kroeger, Linguistic, London, MA, Malden, Martin's Press, Michael Putnam, Miller, New York, Osborne, Paul, Sobin, St, Syntactic
related to Functional categories · 9
Phrase → Another, English, For, ForceP, If, INFL, Similarly, Some, TP
related to Phrase trees · 7
Phrase → Any, Many, NP, PP, The, There, VP
related to Variation among theories of syntax · 4
Phrase → For, The, Theories, VPs
see also · 4
Phrase → ClauseConstituent, Dependency, Non-finite, Syntactic
is a · 2
Phrase → complement of an abstract, functional lexical item
related to Heads and dependents · 2
Phrase → In, The

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sentence phrases words syntax structure head theories verb syntactic trees noun dependency linguistics grammar tree example word group constituent analysis

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Phraseis afunctional lexical item0.90text
Phraseis acomplement of an abstract0.90text
a constituentinstance ofphrases are often analyzed as units of syntactic structure0.80text
proper names.Another type is the inflectional phraseinstance ofmany frameworks assume that covert determiners are present in bare noun phrases0.80text
whereinstance ofmany frameworks assume that covert determiners are present in bare noun phrases0.80text
constituency tests.The distinction is illustrated with the following examplesinstance ofThe split between these views persists due to conflicting results from the standard empirical diagnostics of phrasehood0.80text
Phraserelated to Functional categoriesSome0.60section
Phraserelated to Functional categoriesFor0.60section
Phraserelated to Functional categoriesForceP0.60section
Phraserelated to Functional categoriesEnglish0.60section
Phraserelated to Functional categoriesSimilarly0.60section
Phraserelated to Functional categoriesAnother0.60section

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