Question

is the group of words in bold a phrase or a clause? by refusing to surrender her seat to a white passenger, african american activist rosa parks inspired a boycott of city buses in montgomery, alabama, and helped strengthen the civil rights movement. phrase clause

Explanation:

A phrase is a group of words without a subject - verb relationship, while a clause has a subject and a verb. The bolded "African American activist Rosa Parks" is a noun phrase (a group of words functioning as a noun, with no subject - verb combination). It is used to identify the person who performed the actions in the sentence, and there is no verb within this group of words, so it is a phrase.

Answer:

phrase