Agroup of words that function together in a sentence, but don’t include both subject and verb is a clause connector modifier phrase

The right answer is D) Phrase. A phrase is defined as a short or long group of words that not include the subject-verb pair needed to make a clause. This last one does include both, subject and verb. There are diverse kind of phrases such as nouns one (the red apple), verb phrases (they are watching a movie) and prepositional ones (inside the room, after dinner, etc.). As you can see, there is no need of both verb and subject to make sense in a phrase, it can have logic without one of them.

write a five paragraph essay, you were taught to have three body paragraphs. a university essay is more flexible than that, depending on its length and on what it is trying to say. a short university essay may have three body paragraphs, but it may have more.