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A phrase is never a part of speech, only a word.
"Transferable" is an adjective and "skills" is a noun. Taken together, they are a noun phrase.
Prepositional phrase
A phrase is a group of words that does not contain a subject and a verb acting together. It functions as a single part of speech (e.g., noun phrase, verb phrase) within a sentence.
The phrase "in addition" is a prepositional phrase in which "in" is the preposition and "addition" is its object. This phrase, as a phrase, is not a part of speech, although it may function as one, probably an adjective or adverb.
A prepositional phrase.
On the mountain top is a preposition phrase, not a part of speech.
That I am is a phrase, the individual words in the phrase are parts of speech. That -- demonstrative, determiner I -- pronoun am -- be verb
adverb phrase
verb
A prepositional phrase.
A prepositional phrase.