4.3.1 Phrases

• Determiners and their types
• Noun phrases and their structure
• Verb phrases and their structure
• Distinguishing phrases from clauses

• identify and use determiners correctly
• identify the structure of a noun phrase
• identify the structure of a verb phrase
• distinguish a phrase from a clause

“What is the difference between a group of words and a sentence?”

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1. Determiners and noun phrases
   40 min · 2 practice tasks · quiz
   The small words that introduce nouns, and how a noun grows into a phrase.
2. Verb phrases
   40 min · 2 practice tasks · quiz
   How auxiliaries stack up around a main verb, and how to find the phrase in a sentence.
3. Phrase or clause?
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   The finite-verb test, practised on travel sentences so the names stop floating.
4. Phrases that carry a journey
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Building noun and verb phrases that add precision to a travel sentence without turning them into clauses by accident.