PPT-Adverbs Words, Phrases, Clauses

Words basic unit with standalone meaning Phrases a string of related words Ex the beautiful brown dog on the lake Words Phrases Clauses Words basic unit with standalone meaning. 1 Nibbles crept across the carpet towards the open door and sneaked through while no one was looking 2 Sue edged over the ice as s he talked to her dog clinging to a tree 3 Eliot s car skidded across the road as it went out of co ntrol and t the building blocks of sentences. Clauses. Clauses are subjects and predicates working together. A sentence can have as few as one clause, or it may have many clauses. . Clauses are to sentences what rooms are to houses.. Miss Johnson. Conjunctions. Conjunctions. : a word that connects words, phrases (groups of words that . do not . contain both a subject and a verb), or clauses (groups of words that. do . contain subjects and verbs). Adapted from . My Dog Bites the English Teacher. , by Marian Anders. First, we learned how to find the subject of a sentence and the verb.. Finding Verbs Review:. The Time Change Method. Change the time of the sentence by saying . Adjective Clauses. Adjective or Adjectival Clauses. Adjective clauses are dependent clauses . They modify . nouns or . pronouns. Adjective . clauses clarify the noun or noun . phrase. They answer questions . What is a phrase?. A group of words, which makes sense, but not complete sense, is called a Phrase. It is a group of related words without a subject and a finite verb. . A finite verb must have a tense and agree with its subject in number and person.. Anaphora. Anaphora (an-NAF-ruh): Figure of repetition that occurs when the first word or set of words in one sentence, clause, or phrase is/are repeated at or very near the beginning of successive sentences, clauses, or phrases; repetition of the initial word(s) over successive phrases or clauses.. What is an adverb?. Adverbs can modify (describe) three different parts of speech.. Modify: Verbs, Adjectives, and other Adverbs. Adverbs modifying verbs. Adverbs give us more details about action verbs.. Semicolon: often used to join independent clauses that are closely related in meaning.. C. onjunctive adverbs / transitional expressions show how the independent clauses that join are related. . Semicolon: often used to join independent clauses that are closely related in meaning,. How are they different? . The main difference:. Phrases. . DO NOT. have BOTH a subject & a verb. Clauses. . DO HAVE. BOTH a subject & a verb. . PHRASES:. 4 Types. No Subject & Verb. 1: Prepositional Phrase. Lesson 1-Adverbs that Modify Verbs. An adverb is a word that modifies a . verb. , an . adjective. , or . another. . adverb. .. Lesson 1. An adverb that modifies a . verb. may tell . how, where, when. Phrase & Clause PPT Webs Grammar Phrases & Clauses Which of the following are phrases and clauses? 1.In my room—Phrase 2.The cat went under the bed—Clause 3.Until next week P or C—why? Let’s examine a Sentence. The . boy. . ran. .. . . Sub . Verb. The . boy. . ran. . fast. .. . . Sub . Verb . Adverb. The boy ran . as fast as deer. .. . . Phrase (Adverbial Phrase). adverbs. An adverb is a word/a set of words that modifies verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs.. It tells when, where, and how an action is performed or indicates the quality or degree of the action..