Understanding Prepositional Phrases: A Comprehensive Guide
Explore the world of prepositional phrases, including what prepositions are, how they function in sentences, and examples to enhance your understanding. Dive into how prepositional phrases modify words and provide essential information about location, time, and more.
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Preposition A preposition is a part of speech that relates one word to another. About Across Against At Before Beside Between By From In Like Next to On Over Through With A few examples
Prepositional Phrase A phrase is a group of words that acts like a single word in a sentence. A prepositional phrase acts like a modifier, a word that changes the sense of another word in a sentence. A Prepositional phrase includes a preposition, its object (the noun or pronoun that follows the preposition), and any modifiers. Prepositional phrases tell you where, when, how, why or to what extent. The scientists flyover the Southern California desert. The scientists have a passionfor desert rocks. Oneof them shoots photos from the plane.
The people in the stands tried to catch the ball flyingtowards them.
Where Where Why Why The refugees stoodunder the helicopter to receive the emergency aid.
