prepositional phrase

Prepositional phrase: It was by foot that he went there.

In the backyard and at the cat are prepositional phrases.

For the purposes of literature, prepositional phrases may begin the sentence.

"of the bands" is a prepositional phrase and can be deleted.

"He always knew the answers, whether it was a passage from Shakespeare or a prepositional phrase."

A preposition together with its complement is called a prepositional phrase.

Miller's language involves sentences that begin with prepositional phrases, using the word For.

After my interview I clutch close a prepositional phrase.

A predicate form of the superlative is actually a prepositional phrase.

It is used to replace a spatial prepositional phrase.

Since they can be omitted, the prepositional phrases at night and on his couch are constituents.

The next two subsections consider the distribution and function of prepositional phrases in English.

Sometimes it is called an adverb, and at other times an intransitive prepositional phrase.

Note that the concept of an indirect object may be rendered by a prepositional phrase.

But, after meandering through one prepositional phrase after another, it's straightforward enough.

The subjunctive is used only in subordinate clauses and certain prepositional phrases.

She asked him to practice oral reading at home: "Focus on hesitations before the prepositional phrase.

For example, to make a prepositional phrase "with her sister," the preposition goes before the noun.

Now, there are no doubt those among you who are seething because has left the building is not a prepositional phrase.

Prepositional phrases, being adverbial, may be used to describe actions and adjectives.

(a prepositional phrase with by expresses the performer of the action)

Prepositional phrases and some noun phrases are expressed in a single word.

Here the predicate consists mostly of either a prepositional phrase or an adjective.

He used a noun, two prepositional phrases and a string of adjectives that would make anyone proud.

A prepositional phrase generally follows what it modifies, and has this order: