Review Exercise NONFINITE VERB PHRASES examples

Review Exercise  NONFINITE VERB PHRASES examples

1. Infinitive phrase: adverbial (tells why he cleared his throat).
2. That clause; nominal; direct object of read.
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3. Infinitive phrase; nominal; direct object of asked.
4. Infinitive phrase: nominal (adjective complement).
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5. Present participle phrase; adjectival (modifies girl).
6. Adjectival past participle phrase; modifies pastry.
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7. Relative clause; adjectival (modifies friend).
8. Subordinate clause; adverbial (tells when).
9. Infinitive phrase; nominal (direct object); I need something.
10. Like smiling: prepositional phrase: adjectival (predicate adjective: happy could substitute for the
whole phrase.
Smiling: gerund, nominal (object of preposition like).
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11. Noun phrase; nominal (appositive - renames the subject, Sally).
12. Subordinate clause; nominal (direct object); the clause expresses indirect speech.
13. Past participle; adjectival object complement.
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