Types of Phrases PDF

**[Types of Phrases]** **1. Noun Phrases:** consists of a noun or pronoun, which is called the head, and any dependent words before or after the head: determinatives, modifiers, and complements such as adjectives, determiners, verbs, prepositions, and clauses. **E.g.** [Doctors] examine patients....

**[Types of Phrases]** **1. Noun Phrases:** consists of a noun or pronoun, which is called the head, and any dependent words before or after the head: determinatives, modifiers, and complements such as adjectives, determiners, verbs, prepositions, and clauses. **E.g.** [Doctors] examine patients. [The doctor] examined the patient. **2. Verb Phrases:** consists of a verb plus another word that further illustrates the verb tense, action, and tone **E.g.** The patient [slept]. The patient [was] [sedated]. Nurse Salim [has been waiting] for an hour. **3. Adjective Phrases:** a group of words that include an adjective that modifies a noun or pronoun **E.g.** The [incredibly loud] alarm scared the medical staff. **4. Adverbial Phrases:** a group of words that acts as an adverb to modify the main clause of a sentence. Adverbial phrases can be made up of two adverbs. These are typically formed by adding a qualifier or intensifier **E.g.** He got up [slowly]. He did [surprisingly well]. The death rate increased [quite drastically]. She spoke to the patient [with a smile]. **5. Prepositional Phrases:** a group of words consisting of a preposition, its object, and any words that modify the object **E.g.** She read the book [in the library]. Some noun phrases have modifiers that add meaning to it. They can be: 1\. **[adjective phrases]**: senior doctor **E.g.** The senior doctor examined the elder patient. 2\. **[prepositional phrases]**: in the blue scrub **E.g.** The doctor in the blue scrub has the file. 3\. **[verb phrases]**: handling the elderly patients **E.g.** The nurse handling the elderly patients is the geriatric nurse. 4\. **[adjective clauses]**: that left the office who gave the patient the medicine why he forgot the medicine **E.g.** The G.P. that left the office is the head of the polyclinic. The nurse who gave the patient the medicine is the head nurse. The reason why he forgot the medicine is he's overworked. **[Correct verb "be" based on your understanding of the phrases with modified nouns.]** 1. The patient with a few lacerations \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ **(be)** in room 8. 2. The patients in ward 6 \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ **(be)** feeling better now. 3. People who eat high sugary diets \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ **(be)** usually diabetic in their forties. 4. The patient sleeping quietly in the lounge \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ **(be)** suffering from foot edema. 5. The senior doctor in the lab coat \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ **(be)** going to be a consultant soon. 6. The nurse preparing the medication in the sluice room \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ **(be)** very observant of patients' needs. 7. The ward where you used to work \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ **(be)** being renovated. 8. The bones that the orthopedist examined \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ **(be)** for an eighty-year-old woman. 9. The casualty with the wound stabs \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ **(be)** suffering from traumatic shock. 10. The vertebrae surrounding the herniated disk \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ **(be)** increasing the pressure in the lower back region. 11. The herniated disk between the two lower back bones \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ **(be)** pressing on the nerve. 12. The panel walking in the hall \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ **(be)** interviewing the candidates.