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Playing with Phrases

Phrases and Titles

Task A - creating your own titles

Make up the title of a novel and discuss it with your partner(s). What sort of phrase is it (NP, VP, AdjP, AdvP, PP)? What sort of phrase do you think it is most normal to have as the title of a book, poem or play? Then compare what you have found with what we say.

 

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