Phrases

• Yoda-speak exercise
• Phrases


  A group of words which behaves as a single unit
• Position in linguistic hierarchy

  • Phonemes
  • Morphemes
  • Words
  • Phrases
  • Clauses
  • Sentences
  • Discourse
• The phrase tends to take its name from the word which expresses the meaning of the phrase
• Noun Phrase


  • Jack saw [a fascinating TV programme]
• Prepositional Phrase


  • Rufus likes drinking beer [in his local pub]
• Syntactic tests for phrasehood
• Semantic tests for phrasehood
• Phonological tests for phrasehood
• Exploring the Verb Phrase
• Phrase

  A group of words which form a syntactic, semantic, or phonological unit
• Noun Phrase


  • Jack saw [a fascinating TV programme]