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Phrases and clauses - Coggle Diagram

- - - - VP have a lexical verb or primary verb as their head
        
        The main verb can stand alone or be preceded by one or more
        auxiliary verbs
        
        Finite verb phrases show distinctions of tense (presentlpast) and can include modal auxiliaries
        
        Non-finite verb phrases don't show tense and can't occur with modal auxiliaries
      - Adjective phrases
        
        AdjP have an adjective as head, and optional modifiers that can
        precede or follow the adjective
        
        Adverb phrases
        
        Are like AdjP in structure, except that the head is an adverb ( H + modifiers)
        
        Prepositional phrases
        
        Consist of a preposition followed by
        a noun phrase, known as the prepositional complement
        
        The preposition can be thought of as a link relating the noun phrase to preceding structures
        
        PP also take complement clauses as complements, but normally these are only wh-clauses and ing-clauses