Liz encourages Emily. L astly, English also employs the verb do to function as a supporting auxiliary in verb phrases that require an auxiliary for certain grammatical processes but which lack some other auxiliary already discussed. Emily sleeps well at night. T o signal the interrogative mood, remember, the auxiliary verb occurs in clause-initial position. A nother way to illustrate some of the relationships between form and function in the verb phrase is presented in the table below.
T o see some examples of adjective phrases, examine the table below.
FORM Adverb Adverb Adjective Prepositional Phrase Adverb Phrase Infinitive Clause N otice that the order of constituents in the adjective phrase, like all other phrase structures in English, is relatively fixed, helping us determine the constituent elements. In the adverb phrase, an adverb functions as head. T o see some examples of adverb phrases, examine the table. This phrase is a 'nonheaded' construction in English since no one constituent functions as the center of the phrase, the center on which the other elements depend. Instead, the structure is divided into two functional components - the preposition followed by its complement.