A
sentence basically has a subject, the object of the sentence or doer of the
action and predicate, the verb, the adjective, etc. A phrase is a group of
words that is also a dependent clause.
In the sentence:
Hearing the footsteps of its owner, the cat jumped
down from the kitchen countertop.
The phrase is:
Hearing the footsteps of its owner
The word is:
Cat
