A phrase is a unit in grammar which is between a word and a clause. It is a collection of linked words. There are six forms of phrase: noun phrases have a noun as their headword as in ‘famous people’ (‘people’ is the head word)....

1 Term for word groups without a finite verb that belong together syntactically. In contrast, the term ‘clause’ denotes a syntactic construction with a finite verb; thus clause stands hierarchically between phrase and sentence. ( X-bar...

// n. 1. A synonym for constituent. In this sense, any constituent, even a clause, may be regarded as a phrase. 2. A synonym for maximal projection, particularly in such category labels as Noun Phrase, Verb Phrase, Prepositional Phrase, etc. In this...

In grammar, a phrase is a group of words that functions as a single unit in the syntax of a sentence. For example the house at the end of the street (example 1) is a phrase. It acts like a noun. It contains the phrase at the end of the street (example...