In grammar, a phrase 's a group of words functioning as a single unit in the syntax of a sentence. For example, the house at the end of the street's a phrase. It acts like a noun. It can further be broken down into two shorter phrases functioning as adjectives: at the end of the street and of the street, a shorter prepositional phrase within the longer prepositional phrase. At the end of the street could be replaced by an adjective such as nearby: the nearby house or even the house nearby. The… (More on Phrase)