If it has one (subject or predicate), the other will not be present. Remember: ‘subject’ is the performer of the action in a clause while ‘verb’ is the doing word. Examples of phrases are: ...

Of the 156 medical devices cleared and later subject to a class 1 recall, information about the predicate device was not available for 29 products. Of the remaining 127 index devices citing predicates ...

Last week, we started discussing the differences between a phrase, clause and a sentence. We defined a phrase as a group of words without a subject and a predicate, though standing together to ...

"John" is the subject of the sentence. "Ate a slice" and "drank a bottle" are simplified versions of the two verbal phrases of the compound predicate (the part of the sentence that describes what ...

A phrase is a group of words that does not contain a subject and a predicate, with ‘predicate’ referring to the part of a sentence that contains the verb and gives information about the subject.