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Explain how "clauses" are different from "phrases". Give examples also.
Explain how “clauses” are different from “phrases”. Give examples also.
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Phrase and clause are the foremost important a part of a sentence. And sentences can not be complete without phrases and clauses.
Clause:-
Clause may be a a part of a sentence which contains a verb. Clauses have subject, predicate, object and other modifiers. Clause is an actual part of a sentence.
Example:-
Finally we can rest after a long day.
Tom likes to eat meat at the nearest shop.
She laughed at funny people.
I eat buttery popcorn
( The bold part of the sentence is clause)
Phrase:- phrase is part of a sentence which doesn’t have any verb. Phrase is not a sentence it is just a group of words.
Example:-
There isn’t any ideal age to get married.
She laughed at funny people.
Finally we can rest after a long day.
Her earnest desire is to go to Italy.
(The bold part of the sentence is phrase)
So now that you have a basic idea of phrase and clause, so let’s learn the differences between them-
Differences of Phrase and Clause:-
- Clause is a kind of a sentence, but a phrase isn’t a sentence, it is a group of words.
- Clause has a verb in it, but phrase doesn’t have any verb.
- Clauses have subject and predicate, but phrase doesn’t have subject or predicate because it is not a sentence.
- Clause can convey the complete thought of a sentence, but phrase can not convey the complete thought of a sentence.
- Clauses give the complete information about subject and predicate, but Phrase can not convey the information of subject and predicate.
- There are basically the two types of clause independent clause and dependent clause. But there are eight kinds of phrases : noun, verb, gerund, infinitive, appositive, participial, prepositional, and absolute.
- The independent clause can stand alone, on the other hand any type of phrase can not stand alone.