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the category of the phrase; for example, a phrase whose head is a noun is called a noun phrase. The remaining words in a phrase are called the dependents...

Communication Phrases (SMCP), which were adopted by the IMO as resolution A.198(22) in November 2001 at their 22nd Assembly. A good example of the benefit...

complement phrase the man (a noun phrase), and the adjunct phrase through the window (an adverbial phrase and prepositional phrase). The third example presents...

is illustrated in the examples below. a. This sentence contains two noun phrases. b. It contains them. a. The subject noun phrase that is present in this...

English translations of common Latin phrases. Some of the phrases are themselves translations of Greek phrases. Assertions, such as those by Bryan A...

A pronominal is also a word or phrase that acts as a pronoun. For example, in That's not the one I wanted, the phrase the one (containing the prop-word...

word or phrase, by any method. It may consist of a group of letters or words taken from the full version of the word or phrase; for example, the word...

adverbials, and sentences. Adverbial phrases can be divided into two types: complement adverbs and modifier adverbs. For example, in the sentence She sang very...

metaphorical phrase that means one should not judge the worth or value of something or someone by their outward appearance alone. For example, "That man...

An idiom is a phrase or expression that usually presents a figurative, non-literal meaning attached to the phrase. Some phrases which become figurative...

underlined in the following example sentences. The head adjective in each of these phrases is in bold, and how the adjective phrase is functioning—attributively...

word, morpheme, or phrase that means exactly or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. For example, in the English language...

homophone sometimes applies to units longer or shorter than words, for example a phrase, letter, or groups of letters which are pronounced the same as a counterpart...

various other formal phrases, the phrase "Thank you" can be varied in speaking so as to convey many different meanings. For example, "no, thank you" or...

formal contexts, but they are widely used in colloquial speech. Examples of RAS phrases include: DC Comics (Detective Comics Comics) HIV virus (human immunodeficiency...

word or phrase formed by rearranging the letters of a different word or phrase, typically using all the original letters exactly once. For example, the word...

head or nucleus of a phrase is the word that determines the syntactic category of that phrase. For example, the head of the noun phrase boiling hot water...

fact that phrases have heads in all circumstances. While the sentence John talked to the man, for example, involves the PSR of a verb phrase "VP → V (PP)"...

the context; for example, it can be used to refer to the last few notes of a particular phrase, or to just the final chord of that phrase, or to types of...

music media. An example of an internationally famous artist who is not well known in Japan is Adele. In Japanese culture, the phrase "small in Japan"...