Lesson 9 | Digging Deeper into Nonverbal Phrases

What we learned this lesson

1. A prepositional phrase is a phrase that begins with a preposition.
2. An appositional phrase contains a noun usually adjacent to another noun in the anchor phrase, both of which refer to the same person or thing, and have the same function in the overall clause.
3. A substantival phrase is a a group of words that includes a verb but functions as a noun.
4. There are 18 major relationships that a prepositional phrase can have with its anchor phrase:
5. Ground
6. Purpose
7. Advantage
8. Disadvantage
9. Temporal
10. Locative
11. Source
12. Destination
13. Separation
14. Manner
15. Means
16. Agency
17. Comparison
18. Standard
19. Substitution
20. Context
21. Distinction
22. Accompaniment
23. There is one major relationship that an appositional phrase can have with its anchor phrase: Explanation.
24. There is one major relationship that a substantival phrase can have with its anchor phrase: Content.

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