In linguistics, a verb phrase or VP is a syntactic unit composed of at least one verb and the dependents of that verb. One can distinguish between two main types of VPs, finite VPs (the verb is a finite verb) and non-finite VPs (the verb is a non-finite verb). While phrase structure grammars acknowledge both, dependency grammars reject the existence of a finite VP constituent. In this regard, the understanding of verb phrases can be theory-driven.
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