Plastic takes a long time to break down.
A verb phrase is the verb and its dependents (objects, complements, and other modifiers), but not the subject or its dependents.The verb phrase in the sentence is "slowly walked down the road".The subject is the pronoun "They".
I walked down the street. "down the street" is a prepositiional phrase.
Not every sentence has a prepositional phrase. A prepositional phrase is a group of words that begins with a preposition and ends with a noun or pronoun, but not all sentences include this grammatical structure. Some sentences may contain other types of phrases or be structured differently.
The infinitive is an adverb modifying an adjective (happy). BREAK DOWN: YOU (subject) ARE (verb) HAPPY (predicate adjective) TO FINISH YOUR TEST (adverbial phrase for happy) TEST (the object of the infinitive)
The only thing wrong with this sentence is that both parts of the sentence are in present perfect. Rewriting the sentence without contractions: "He has gone down, and he has not put his hands out to break his fall". One wouldn't say this. One would say, "He has gone down, and he did not put his hands out to break his fall"; or "He went down, and he did not put his hands out to break his fall".
No, because you are not doing something physically. Verb: I skipped down to the shops.
No, they are not. An example of a sentence is 'There is a man down the lane.' A phrase might be 'man down the lane'.
He favourite pacification technique was to repeat the phrase, "calm down, calm down."
Let's break the sentence down. You'll find that Jamie is the subject, and walked is the verb. Where did Jamie walk? Jamie walked through the dark alley. That is a prepositional phrase, and through is the proposition.
i have a lot
It is when you break down a sentence like: We do driving right. Pronoun Verb Noun Adverb
The preposition is "down." The phrase "down the banister" modifies the verb slid.