Question

is the group of words in bold a phrase or a clause? ironically, although approximately seventy - one percent of the earth is covered by water, thirty - three percent of its land area is desert. phrase clause submit

Explanation:

A phrase is a group of words that lacks a subject - verb combination (it doesn't express a complete thought on its own and has no independent clause structure). A clause must have a subject and a verb. The bolded group "of its land area" is a prepositional phrase. It has a preposition "of", an object "its land area", but no subject - verb pair. So it is a phrase.

Answer:

phrase