Asked by jk

Read the sentence.

The animals' habitat was in the direct path of the forest fire.

Which type of phrase or clause is underlined in the sentence?
noun phrase
verb phrase
adjectival clause
adverbial clause

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
Noun phrase.

"The animals' habitat" is a noun phrase: its head is the noun "habitat" modified by the determiner "The" and the possessive "animals'." It is not a verb phrase or a clause (there is no subject+verb inside it).