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Phrases Exercises en Ingles

This document contains 4 exercises that ask the reader to identify and underline different types of phrases in sentences. Exercise 1 has the reader underline noun phrases and circle prepositional phrases. Exercise 2 has the reader underline adjective phrases and circle the words they modify. Exercise 3 has the reader underline adverbial phrases and write what question they answer. Exercise 4 provides a short story passage and asks the reader to identify 12 different types of phrases found in the passage and their functions.

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Phrases Exercises en Ingles

This document contains 4 exercises that ask the reader to identify and underline different types of phrases in sentences. Exercise 1 has the reader underline noun phrases and circle prepositional phrases. Exercise 2 has the reader underline adjective phrases and circle the words they modify. Exercise 3 has the reader underline adverbial phrases and write what question they answer. Exercise 4 provides a short story passage and asks the reader to identify 12 different types of phrases found in the passage and their functions.

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EXERCISE 1

Read the following sentences. Underline the noun phrase in each sentence and circle any
prepositional phrases you can find.
1. The brightly-coloured parrot flew through the canopy.
2. After his lunch, Harold ate a sweet, delicious chocolate brownie.
3. Under the waves, the stripy fish swam quickly through the reef.
4. In a forest clearing, a dark, mysterious jaguar sauntered by the water.
5. “Pass me the blue shoes please,” Mum asked Sophia.
6. As John sat at the bus stop, he saw three large, black cars go past.
7. “These strawberry yogurts are out of date!” complained the customer in the shop.
8. “Whose is this writing pencil?” asked the teacher as she held it in the air.
9. When he reached the top, the climber stared at the vast, breath-taking view.
10. Happy and elated, the winning team held their trophy in the air.

EXERCISE 2
Underline each adjective phrase in the sentences below and circle the word it
modifies. 1. I ordered a pancake with maple syrup.
2. A book without any illustration may be very interesting.
3. This is the new road to the state park.
4. The sound of the rain on the roof is very loud.
5. Mimi just read a book about Winston Churchill.
6. The winter coat in the closet no longer fits.
7. An investigator uncovered a file of important papers.
8. Strawberries with cream is grandmother’s favorite.
9. When did the car in the driveway arrive?
10. I just lost my list of errands.

EXERCISE 3
Underline the adverbial phrase. On the line, write the question it answers.
1. We expect our grandparents to arrive in about an hour. When do we expect our
grandparents to arrive?
2. My cousin watches television almost as much as you do. How much does my
cousin watches television.
3. The weatherman says it will rain all day. How long will it rain?
4. Your brother plays soccer better than my brother does. How does your brother
plays soccer compared to my brother?
5. Our friend drives on Mondays. When does our friend drive?
6. Stacy and Nancy will walk on the sidewalk. Where will Stacy and Nancy walk?
7. The snake slithers through the tall grass. Where does the snake slithers?
8. Mom combs my hair more gently than Dad does. How does my mom
comb my hair compared to my dad?
9. He found his lucky penny in the morning. When does he find his lucky
penny?
10. We raced our toy cars on the playground. Where did we race our toy cars?

EXERCISE 4
Read the following text. Identify and categorize 12 phrases you can find. EXTRA CREDIT:
Identify their function.
Upon the eighth night I was more than usually cautious in opening the door. A watch’s minute
hand moves more quickly than did mine. Never before that night had I felt the extent of my own
powers — of my sagacity. I could scarcely contain my feelings of triumph. To think that there I
was, opening the door, little by little, and he not even to dream of my secret deeds or thoughts. I
fairly chuckled at the idea; and perhaps he heard me; for he moved on the bed suddenly, as if
startled. Now you may think that I drew back — but no. His room was as black as pitch with the
thick darkness (for the shutters were close fastened, through fear of robbers), and so I knew that
he could not see the opening of the door, and I kept pushing it on steadily, steadily.

I had my head in, and was about to open the lantern, when my thumb slipped upon the tin
fastening, and the old man sprang up in the bed, crying out — “Who’s there?”

I kept quite still and said nothing. For a whole hour I did not move a muscle, and in the
meantime I did not hear him lie down. He was still sitting up in the bed listening; — just as I have
done, night after night, hearkening to the death watches in the wall.

Presently I heard a slight groan, and I knew it was the groan of mortal terror. It was not a groan
of pain or of grief — oh, no! — it was the low stifled sound that arises from the bottom of the soul
when overcharged with awe. I knew the sound well. Many a night, just at midnight, when all the
world slept, it has welled up from my own bosom, deepening, with its dreadful echo, the terrors
that distracted me. I say I knew it well. I knew what the old man felt, and pitied him, although I
chuckled at heart. I knew that he had been lying awake ever since the first slight noise, when he
had turned in the bed. His fears had been ever since growing upon him. He had been trying to
fancy them causeless, but could not. He had been saying to himself — “It is nothing but the wind
in the chimney — it is only a mouse crossing the floor,” or “it is merely a cricket which has made
a single chirp.” Yes, he has been trying to comfort himself with these suppositions; but he had
found all in vain. All in vain; because Death, in approaching him, had stalked with his black
shadow before him, and enveloped the victim. And it was the mournful influence of the
unperceived shadow that caused him to feel — although he neither saw nor heard — to feel the
presence of my head within the room.

(from The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe)

Green - Adjective phrases

Red - Prepositional phrases

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