verb phrase

1. 1.

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

   Synonymspredicate

   Broaderphrase

Questions about verb phrase

What does verb phrase mean?

verb phrase means "one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the predicate contains the verb and its complements".

What is another word for verb phrase?

Close synonyms include predicate. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is verb phrase a common word?

verb phrase is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.