A phrase is a group of words that work together to express a unified meaning butthat lack a subject, a A noun phrase consists of the central noun or --Daniel Kammen, "Cookstoves for the Developing World," ScientificAmerican (modified) A verb phrase consists of the central verb, any --"Low-Energy Ways to Observe High-Energy Phenomena," ScientificAmerican An adjective phrase consists of the central --William Hostold and John Duncan, "The Aluminum Beverage Can,"Scientific American (modified) A prepositional phrase consists of the prepositionand the noun phrase that follows. --"The Earth's Elements," Scientific American Because phrases are used to express unified meanings, they should not becarelessly split or separated by other phrases or parts of other phrases. See also Appositive Phrases and Copyright ©2001 The McGraw-Hill Companies. Any use is subject to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. McGraw-Hill Higher Education is one of the many fine businesses of Half of the world's population of nearly six billion people preparetheir food and heat their homes with coal and the traditional biomass fuels ofdung, crop residues, wood and charcoal. [The phrase in bold type is thenoun phrase.]The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, the European laboratory for particlephysics near Geneva, will probably be built in the first few years of the21st century. [The phrase in bold type is the verb phrase.]Beverage cans have emerged as the most important market foraluminum.Astrophysicists of the early 20th century, not knowing about nuclearprocesses, computed that a sun powered by chemical burning or gravitationalshrinking could shine only for a few million years.
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