Noun and Verb Phrases
Grammar Rules Guide - Chapter 21
A verb phrase is a phrase (a group of related words lacking a subject or a verb) that consists of a main verb plus one or more helping verbs.
Some common helping verbs are:
to be (am, is, are, was, were, be, being, been)
to have (has, have, had)
to do (do, does, did)
others: may, might, must, can, could, shall, should, will, would
Helping verbs add meaning to other verbs. Some helping verbs change the time expressed by the key verb. Others, such as should and might, are used to indicate obligation, possibility, ability, or permission:
The student is going to Florida for Spring Break.
The firm will probably not hire an accountant today.
You should edit your own compositions.
A noun phrase is a made up of a noun and all its modifiers. It can function in a sentence as a subject, an object, or a complement.
Some noun phrases begin with an infinitive (to go) or a gerund (going); this type of noun phrase is always singular:
To sail the seven seas was her lifelong dream. (subject)
Dieters prefer green salad. (object)
A ham sandwich is a popular lunch. (complement)
Grammar Rules Guide Index
Active and Passive Voice - Chapter 1
Adjective, Adverb, and Noun Clauses - Chapter 2
Adjectives - Chapter 3
Adverbs - Chapter 4
Appositives - Chapter 5
Auxiliary Verbs - Chapter 6
Common and Proper Nouns - Chapter 7
Comparatives and Superlatives - Chapter 8
Complements - Chapter 9
Conjunctions - Chapter 10
Conjunctive Adverbs - Chapter 11
Dangling Modifiers - Chapter 12
Direct and Indirect Objects - Chapter 13
Fused Sentences, Run-Ons, and Comma Splices - Chapter 14
Homophones - Chapter 15
Independent and Dependent Clauses - Chapter 16
Interjections - Chapter 17
Mass and Count Nouns - Chapter 18
Misplaced Modifiers - Chapter 19
Noun and Pronoun Case - Chapter 20
Noun and Verb Phrases - Chapter 21
Nouns - Chapter 22
Parallelism - Chapter 23
Perfect and Progressive Verb Forms - Chapter 24
Prepositional Phrases - Chapter 25
Prepositions - Chapter 26
Principal Parts of Verbs - Chapter 27
Pronoun and Antecedent Agreement - Chapter 28
Pronouns - Chapter 29
Regular and Irregular Verbs - Chapter 30
Relative Clauses - Chapter 31
Restrictive and Non-Restrictive Clauses - Chapter 32
Sentence Fragments - Chapter 33
Sentence Types - Chapter 34
Subjects and Predicates - Chapter 35
Verb Mood - Chapter 36
Verbals and Verbal Phrases - Chapter 37
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