M. Iriskulov, A. Kuldashev a course in Theoretical English Grammar Tashkent 2008

The Types of Co-ordinate Phrases 
The coordinate phrases may be of two types: syndetically connected (free 
and happy) and asyndetically connected coordinate phrases (hot, dusty, tired out). 
In the structure of the first type, there’s always a word that connects the 
constituents of the phrase while in the second type there’s no connector. 
The Types of Subordinate Phrases 
The subordinate phrases are classified according to the head word. Thus 
there are noun phrases (cold water), verb phrases (saw a house), adjective phrases 
(extremely red) and so on. 
The Types of Predicative Phrases 
The predicative phrases fall under: 
Infinitive predicative phrases: I asked him to stay. 
Gerundial predicative phrases: I saw him running. 
Absolute predicative phrases: Everybody stood up, glass in hand. 

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As it is seen from the examples the types of predicative phrases depend on 
what non-finite form of the verb verbal part of them is expressed by. 
There are a lot of definitions concerning the word-group. The most adequate 
one seems to be the following: the word-group is a combination of at least two 
notional words which do not constitute the sentence but are syntactically 
connected. According to some other scholars (the majority of Western scholars and 
professors B.IIyish and V.Burlakova - in Russia), a combination of a notional word 
with a function word (on the table) may be treated as a word-group as well. The 
problem is disputable as the role of function words is to show some abstract 
relations and they are devoid of nominative power. On the other hand, such 
combinations are syntactically bound and they should belong somewhere. 
General characteristics of the word-group are: 
1) As a naming unit it differs from a compound word because the number of 
constituents in a word-group corresponds to the number of different denotates: a 
black bird (2), a blackbird (I); a loud speaker (2), a loudspeaker (I). 
2) Each component of the word-group can undergo grammatical changes 
without destroying the identity of the whole unit: to see a house - to see houses. 
3) A word-group is a dependent syntactic unit, it is not a communicative unit 
and has no intonation of its own.