Identify phrases and clauses from the given options and categorize them.

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Identify phrases and clauses from the given options and categorize them.

ScanSolve AI Answer

Here's the categorization of the given word groups into clauses and phrases:

Clauses: A clause contains both a subject and a finite verb.

  • whose class is extremely difficult
    • Subject: "class" (modified by "whose")
    • Verb: "is"
  • unless you are afraid
    • Subject: "you"
    • Verb: "are"
  • provided that she answers
    • Subject: "she"
    • Verb: "answers"

Phrases: A phrase is a group of words that does not contain both a subject and a finite verb.

  • might have gone caving
    • No subject. "Might have gone" is a verb phrase, but it lacks a subject within this group.
  • the desperately exhausted man
    • No subject and no finite verb. This is a noun phrase.

Here is the sorted list:

Clauses

  • whose class is extremely difficult
  • unless you are afraid
  • provided that she answers

Phrases

  • might have gone caving
  • the desperately exhausted man
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