A phrase is a group of two or more words that does not contain a subject and a verb working together. There are many types of phrases, including verb phrases, adverb phrases, and adjective phrases.

Narrator: Nice use of your nouns there. Beast, lake and boat. How about we expand those noun phrases? Expanded noun phrases tell you more about the noun. So, 'there's a beast' could be expanded to ...

Narrator: Nice use of your nouns there. Beast, lake and boat. How about we expand those noun phrases? Expanded noun phrases tell you more about the noun. So, 'there's a beast' could be expanded to ...

When the verb is in a non-finite form, such as an infinitive (to do) or a participle (doing), its subject is implied to be the subject of the clause, or sometimes the closest noun phrase.

Case theory deals with a special property that all noun phrases are assumed to have. If they lack this feature ... The accusative Case is assigned to the complement of a verb, unless the verb is ...