{"id":3722,"date":"2022-05-21T17:24:04","date_gmt":"2022-05-21T17:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mdr.foobrdigital.com\/?p=3722"},"modified":"2022-05-21T17:24:04","modified_gmt":"2022-05-21T17:24:04","slug":"what-is-phrase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/2022\/05\/21\/what-is-phrase\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Phrase?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Phrases<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0clauses\u00a0are the most important elements of\u00a0English grammar. Phrase and clause cover everything a sentence has. Clauses are the center of sentences and phrases strengthen the sentences to become meaningful. If the clauses are the pillars of a building, the phrases are the bricks. A phrase usually is always present within a\u00a0clause, but a phrase cannot have a clause in it.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The basic difference between a clause and a phrase is that a clause must have\u00a0<strong>a\u00a0finite verb<\/strong>\u00a0and a phrase must not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A&nbsp;<strong>phrase<\/strong>, therefore, is a group of words which has no finite verb in it and acts to complete the sentence for making it meaningful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>\u201cA phrase is a small group of words that form a meaningful unit within a&nbsp;clause.\u201d-Oxford Dictionary<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>\u201cIn&nbsp;linguistic analysis, a phrase is a group of words (or possibly a single word) that functions as a&nbsp;constituent&nbsp;in the&nbsp;syntax&nbsp;of a&nbsp;sentence, a single unit within the grammatical&nbsp;hierarchy.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phrases\u00a0and\u00a0clauses\u00a0are the most important elements of\u00a0English grammar. Phrase and clause cover everything a sentence has. Clauses are the center of sentences and phrases strengthen the sentences to become meaningful. If the clauses are the pillars of a building, the phrases are the bricks. A phrase usually is always present within a\u00a0clause, but a phrase cannot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3722"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}