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Also known as phrases, expression
In grammar, a phrase called an expression in some contexts is a group of one or more words acting as a grammatical unit. This means that a phrase can be treated as a unit within a larger structure. For instance, the English sentence "the squirrel is very happy" is a clause phrase which contains the noun phrase "the squirrel" and the verb phrase "is very happy". Additionally, "very happy" is an adjective phrase. Phrases can consist of a single word or a complete sentence. In theoretical linguistics, phrases are often analyzed as units of syntactic structure such as a constituent. There is a dif
A phrase is a group of words that functions together as a single grammatical unit, like "the squirrel" or "is very happy" in a sentence. Understanding phrases matters because they help explain how language is organized and structured—breaking sentences into smaller building blocks that linguists and grammarians can analyze.
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11,934 papers- Against the Phrase "Aggressive Care".Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics : CQ : the international journal of healthcare ethics committees · 2025Bibler TMDOI: 10.1017/S096318012400077X
- Efficient phrase search with reliable verification over encrypted cloud-IoT data.PeerJ. Computer science · 2024Xu W, Zhu Z, Khalid MIDOI: 10.7717/peerj-cs.2235
- Minimal Phrase Composition Revealed by Intracranial Recordings.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2022Murphy E, Woolnough O, Rollo PS et al.DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1575-21.2022
- Examining the Transition from Single Words to Phrase Speech in Children with ASD: A Systematic Review.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2024Byrne K, Sterrett K, Lord CDOI: 10.1007/s10567-024-00507-1
- English Phrase Learning With Multimodal Input.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Huang Y, Zhang Z, Yu J et al.DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.828022
- Structural and sequential regularities modulate phrase-rate neural tracking.Scientific reports · 2024Zhao J, Martin AE, Coopmans CWDOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-67153-z
- A Clinical Phrase Book; in English and German, Containing the Usual Questions and Answers Employed in Examining and Prescribing for Patients; Questions in Asking for and Buying Medicines, Etc.: With an English-German and German-English Pronouncing Lexicon, of All the Words Occurring in the Phrases, with the Chief Technical Terms of Medical Writers and Apothecaries; Grammatical Appendix, Table of Idioms, &c., Designed to Aid Physicians and Surgeons in Hospitals, Alms House and Private Practice; Also Druggists and Pharmaceutists, in Dispensing Their Prescriptions.ReviewWestern journal of medicine and surgery · 1853
- Development of a Phrase-Based Speech-Recognition Test Using Synthetic Speech.Trends in hearing · 2024Ibelings S, Brand T, Ruigendijk E et al.DOI: 10.1177/23312165241261490
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