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Difference Between Phrase and Clause: Wills vs. Living Trusts
Difference Between Phrase and Clause: Wills vs. Living Trusts
Examples:
He laughed.
The guests arrived.
A phrase is a group of words that does not consist of a subject and a verb.
Examples: on a table, under the tree, near the wall, on the roof, at the door.
Both the clause and the phrase may exist within a sentence. For instance, read the following sentence:
Example: He is sleeping on the bed.
The first part of the sentence “He is sleeping” is a clause because it has a subject and a verb. On the other hand,
the remaining part of sentence, ‘on the bed’ is a phrase because it lacks both the subject and the verb.
Read the following examples. The underlined part of each sentence is a phrase. Non-underlined part of each
sentence is a clause:
On the hand, a phrase cannot stand alone as a complete sentence because it does not give a complete meaning.
For instance, in the above sentence ‘on the bed’ cannot stand as alone sentence as it does not give a complete
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meaning. The each word of phrase has a meaning but the phrase collectively does not make a complete sense
like a sentence. The purpose of phrase is to complement the overall structure of a sentence.
A simple sentence can also be called one clause. For instance, ‘He laughed’ is a sentence, but it is also one
clause. Some sentence may have more than one clause, read the following example:
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