Question

Locate the complete verbal phrase and identify its use. A boy named Robert won the high jump contest.

Answer 1

The complete verbal phrase is “won the high jump contest”. The type of verbal phrase is finite verbal phrase, since it contains a finite verb “win”, which is the head of the phrase. Since the finite verb “win” is a transitive one, there is a complement next to the verb that has the syntactic function of direct object “the high jump contest”.