Phrase

Phrase

In everyday speech, a phrase may refer to any group of words. In linguistics, a phrase is a group of words (or sometimes a single word) that form a constituent and so function as a single unit in the syntax of a sentence. A phrase is lower on the grammatical hierarchy than a clause.

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Famous quotes containing the word phrase:

    ““The life of reason”Ma phrase once used by people who thought that reading books would deliver them from their passions.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    “Rude am I in my speech,
    And little blessed with the soft phrase of peace.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “And what, then, is belief? It is the demi-cadence which closes a musical phrase in the symphony of our intellectual life.”
    —Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914)