Question

Calcium is essential for strong bones and teeth.

What kind of phrase are the bolded words?


adjective phrase
noun phrase
adverb phrase
verb phrase

Answer 1

(for strong bones and teeth.) is the bolded words

Answer 2

C or D I think.

Answer 3

Adverbial phrase-
In linguistics, an adverbial phrase is a group of two or more words operating adverbially, meaning that their syntactic function is to modify a verb, an adjective, or an adverb. Adverbial phrases ("AdvP" in syntactic trees) are phrases that do the work of an adverb in a sentence.

Adjective phrase-
An adjective phrase (or adjectival phrase) is a phrase whose head word is an adjective, e.g. fond of steak, very happy, quite upset about it, etc. The adjective in an adjective phrase can initiate the phrase (e.g. fond of steak), conclude the phrase (e.g. very happy), or appear in a medial position (e.g. quite upset about it).

Noun phrase-
A noun phrase or nominal phrase (abbreviated NP) is a phrase which has a noun (or indefinite pronoun) as its head word, or which performs the same grammatical function as such a phrase. Noun phrases are very common cross-linguistically, and they may be the most frequently occurring phrase type.

Verb phrase-
the part of a sentence containing the verb and any direct or indirect object, but not the subject.

After reading these definitions which do you think it is.

Answer 4

I take no credit for the definitions all are fully worded and 100% true from a dictionary

Answer 5

sorry this is closed