A phrase is a group of two or more words that does not contain a subject and a verb working together. There are many types of phrases, including verb phrases, adverb phrases, and adjective phrases.

For example, Jack said 'I was desperate to keep my job'. Some other adjectives are followed by different prepositions. For example, Tim wanted Jack to be responsible for his own actions.

This is what is referred to as preserving parallel structure. For instance, nouns must match with nouns, adjectives with adjectives, prepositions with prepositions, and adverbs with adverbs. In order ...

There are eight (8) parts of speech in English and they are the noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, ...

You can join sentences, clauses and phrases together using connectives, or joining words. Some common connectives include ‘and’, ‘but’, ‘so’ and ‘then’. Using these can make your ...