Question

. Identify the phrase: She was lost in the dark of night. *

Answer 1

Answer:

she was lost in the dark of night

Answer 2

Answer:

The phrase in the sentence- She was lost in the dark of night is "in the dark of night"

Explanation:

• A group of words that form a conceptual unit together is termed as a Phrase in a sentence
• There can be long or short phrases and phrases do not contain a subject-verb pair thereby differentiating them from a clause.
• So phrases, though they don't form a complete sentence, they do express a single idea.
• Some examples of phrases are: out the door, on the table etc.

In the given sentence,  She was lost in the dark of night, "in the dark of night" is a phrase as these words by itself convey a meaning and that is doing something when it is still dark.

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