PHRASES Vs CLAUSES
Let’s start with an example,
“My best friend” & “John is my best friend” – both of them are group of words, one is a phrase and another is a clause.
“My best friend” is a group of word with no subject and verb, so, it’s a phrase.
“John is my best friend”, is having a subject and verb combination. ‘John’ is a subject and ‘is’ is a verb.
Difference between phrase and clause:
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PHRASE |
CLAUSE |
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Phrase is a group of words with no subject and verb combination. A phrase misses a subject and a predicate. |
Clause is a group of words with a subject and verb combination. A clause includes both subject and verb. |
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It doesn’t have any meaning if used alone. |
It has a complete meaning by itself. |
Examples:
the children laughed
Clause or Phrase? Clause. This group of words has both a subject (children) and predicate (laughed). It is an independent clause and could stand alone as a complete sentence.
by talking about their favorite recipes
Clause or Phrase? Phrase. There is no subject or predicate in this group of words, and it doesn’t make sense when used by itself.
AUTHOR
Dr L Suresh
Assistant Professor of English
Sri Ramakrishna Mission Vidyalaya College of Arts and Science
Coimbatore - 641020
Contact: 9944138137
e-mail ID: sureshenglit@rmv.ac.in
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