English Grammar for ESL

Question

Identify all of the constituent phrases and list them individually with their phrase types (NP, VP, PP, etc) Identify embedded phrases within phrases.

1.  Jerry ran through the park. 
2.   Sarah dreaded the social gathering.
3.  The panel declared the convict guilty.
4.   From our perspective, the aid package is unsatisfactory.
5.   George Bailey gave Clarence a hearty handshake.

Answer 1

Just to clarify you're talking about the following:

NP - noun phrase

VP - Verb Phrase

PP - Prepositional phrase

1.  Jerry ran through the park. 
2. Jerry (noun/subject.) There really isn't a noun phrase here as it's just Jerry(the subject noun) - it would be a noun phrase if the sentence said something like "my new friend Jerry who is from Chicago."

2. ran through the park(VerbPhrase) There's two ways to think about this. It's either just the verb "ran" along with a prepositional phrase "through the park" or you could argue "ran through the park" is a verb phrase. Both interpretations are valid in my opinion.

1. "Through the park" (prepositional phrase) This uses a preposition (through) so this might be better classified as a preposition phrase rather than the whole VP as I just mentioned.
2.   Sarah dreaded the social gathering.

Sarah - noun phrase ( like the jerry example above)

Dreaded - verb phrase (more obvious this time as there's no preposition phrase)

the social gathering (object noun/noun phrase) it's saying what sarah (the subject noun) dreaded

That should get you started, I'm here to help, not do all your work for you. post your other answers and we'll see what I can do to help further.