Ministry of higher and secondary specialized

The Types of Predicative Phrases

The predicative phrases fall under:

Infinitive predicative phrases: I asked him to stay.

Gerundial predicative phrases: I saw him running.

Absolute predicative phrases: Everybody stood up, glass in hand.

As it is seen from the examples the types of predicative phrases depend on what non-finite 

form of the verb verbal part of them is expressed by.

Study questions

1. What is phrase (word - combination)?

2. What is the difference between a word and a phrase?

3. What is the difference between a word and a phrase and a sentence?

4. What conceptions on phrase (word-combination) do you know?

5. What are the criteria to distinguish the types of phrases?

6. What types of phrases do you know according to the syntactic relations between the constituents 

of phrases?

7. What types of phrases do you know according to the word-groups constituting phrases?

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