VERB PHRASE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

One of the two main constituents of a sentence; the predicate contains the verb and its complements

Synonyms:

predicate; verb phrase

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("verb phrase" is a kind of...):

phrase (an expression consisting of one or more words forming a grammatical constituent of a sentence)

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