Phrases and Clauses - Troup County School District
www.troup.org › userfiles › 929Phrases and Clauses I. A phrase is a collection of words that may have nouns or verbals, but it does not have a subject doing a verb. The following are examples of phrases: leaving behind the dog smashing into a fence before the first test after the devastation between ignorance and intelligence broken into thousands of pieces
PHRASE vs. CLAUSE - Laney College
laney.edu › Grammar-handout-phrase-vs-clauseknow the difference between a phrase and a clause. Here are two kinds of phrases that sometimes look like clauses. 1) -ing phrases: When you look for verbs in sentences, remember that the -ing form of a word cannot be a verb all by itself, so the group of words succeeding in school despite working full time is a phrase, not a clause.
Phrases & Clauses - Saylor Academy
resources.saylor.org › wwwresources › archivedan independent phrase ! Examples: ! The bus having stopped, the tourists filed out ! The bus having stopped is the absolute phrase! The theater being nearby, I decided to walk ! The theater being nearby is the absolute phrase ! PUNCTUATION NOTE ! An absolute phrase is always separate from the rest of the sentence by a comma.