George and Lennie have a dream: to scrounge enough money together to someday buy their own little house and a plot of land to farm. They dream of roots, stability, and independence. They encounter other dreamers in their travels, those grasping for a tomorrow that seems always just out of their grasp.
A group of words that does not contain a subject and predicate and acts as one unit as a part of speech (noun phrase, verb phrase, prepositional phrase, verbal phrase).
