Phrases & Verbals
A phrase is a group of words that work together as one part of a sentence. Some start with a preposition; some are built from a verb.
Preview how it deepens, Grades 4 through 8.
Build one yourself.
Pick one chip at each station and snap them together. The Mayor inspects the finished sentence, a quick taste of how the parts combine.
1 · Nelson's office · the subject
2 · Vinny's stage · the verb
3 · add a phrase (one job, one unit)
A change order drops: make it plural, give it an adverb, swap in a pronoun. Re-tool the sentence and roll it back onto the line.
Play Sentence Surgeon →Slang builds a sentence that follows every rule of grammar and still means nonsense. Catch which rule he really broke, and let the Mayor judge.
Play Garbage Sentences →A phrase is not a whole sentence.
A phrase is a group of words doing one job. It has no subject and predicate of its own, so on its own it is a fragment.
Put the phrase to work inside a complete sentence and it tells you where. The boxed phrase is one unit.
The characters host. The sentence is the star.
The same concept, deeper every grade.
Phrases & Verbals runs the length of the Factory, Grades 4 through 8. The lesson meets the standard at each grade, across all four frameworks.