I am hoping that you will give this matter importance as I don't have a lot of time left as compared to the younger students.
To better understand the role of the gerund phrase in a sentence, could you please provide the sentence you're referring to?
The phrase would be better as "one impetus."
The length of his sentence is in question. A complete sentence is better than a fragment or a phrase.
should be
a sentence phrase is a"sentence "that funtions as a phrase in the sentence. For example: I'm tired of his saying " I'm out of money".
A phrase is an unfinished sentence or a quote.
A prepositional phrase adds details to the sentence.
This is not a sentence it is a phrase and as a phrase it is correct.
The underlined words in a sentence can be a noun phrase, verb phrase, prepositional phrase, or any other type of phrase that functions as a unit within a sentence.
'tick-tock', spoken as a complete sentence indicates 'time is wasting', or 'you better get started on that'.
"without me" is the prepositional phrase in the sentence.
An alternative phrase for "I am" in the sentence could be "I exist."