Encyclopedia > Verb phrase

  Article Content

Verb phrase

A verb phrase is a phrase whose head is a verb. A verb phrase consists of a verb, often one or two complements[?], and any number of adjuncts[?].

Examples:

  • saw the man through the window
  • gave Mary a book

See also: linguistics, syntax, phrase, verb, complement, adjunct[?], X-bar theory



All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

 
  Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!
 
 
  
  Featured Article
Bugatti

... of the cars. Now known as the Schlumpf Collection[?], it has been turned into one of the world's great car museums, the Musée Nationale de l'Automobile. See also: ...

 
 
 
This page was created in 32.9 ms