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.. rst-class:: align-right

**built-in method**

.. index:: pair: phrase//1; Built-in method
.. _methods_phrase_1:

``phrase//1``
=============

Description
-----------

::

   phrase(GrammarRuleBody)

This non-terminal takes a grammar rule body and parses it using the two
implicit grammar rule arguments. A common use is to wrap what otherwise
would be a :term:`naked meta-variable` in a grammar rule body when defining
a meta non-terminal.

Meta-non-terminal template
--------------------------

::

   phrase(0)

Modes and number of proofs
--------------------------

::

   phrase(+callable) - zero_or_more

Errors
------

| ``GrammarRuleBody`` is a variable:
|     ``instantiation_error``
| ``GrammarRuleBody`` is neither a variable nor a callable term:
|     ``type_error(callable, GrammarRuleBody)``

Examples
--------

   (none)

.. seealso::

   :ref:`methods_call_1`,
   :ref:`methods_phrase_2`,
   :ref:`methods_phrase_3`
