This page, from a site for University of Oregon journalism students, provides definitions of phrase, prepositional phrase, participial phrase, gerund phrase, and infinitive phrase. It also provides a brief description of how phrases function in sentences and links to related materials. The site assumes some knowledge of parts of speech.

Concepts

phrases

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Additional Tags

gerund phrase, infinitive phrase, participial phrase, rule use phrase, phrase, prepositional phrase, rules for use of phrases

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

• This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website.It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information

Common Core

L.7.1.a L.9-10.1.b L.8.1.a L.7.4.a