A prepositional phrase consists of a preposition and a noun or pronoun that serves as its object, and can also contain modifiers. It describes relationships between words in a sentence, and can function adverbially or adjectivally. It can have compound objects and express spatial, temporal, or abstract relationships.
A prepositional phrase is an adverbial or adjectival phrase made up of a preposition and a noun or other noun that serves as its object. It can also contain modifiers. Prepositional phrases describe the relationships between words in a sentence.
Composing a prepositional phrase can be quite simple by including just a preposition and a noun, as in “at home.” Often, however, the sentence also contains adjectives that modify the noun, such as “my” in “at my house” or “my most magnificent” in “my most magnificent house”. To complicate matters slightly, the object of the preposition may not even be strictly a noun, but could be another noun as a pronoun or a gerund, such as the gerund “to bathe” in the sentence “after the bath”. If the object is a pronoun, it is always in the objective case, as in “before me” rather than “before me”.
The prepositional phrase can also have a compound object, meaning more than one noun joined by a coordinating conjunction. In English, the coordinating conjunctions are “and”, “but”, “for”, “nor”, “or”, “sos”. ” it’s still.” For example, a prepositional phrase might have two objects joined by “and” such as “between the trees and bushes.” A similar construction could also be used with a negative formation: “in the snow but not in the ice”. In this sentence, “snow” and “ice” are the objects of the same preposition, “in”.
The relationships most often described by prepositional phrases are spatial or temporal in space or time. For example, “between the two houses” expresses a spatial relationship, and “between noon and one o’clock” expresses a temporal one. Prepositional phrases can also express more abstract relationships, such as “under pressure,” where “under” refers to a circumstance rather than a place.
Within a sentence, a prepositional phrase can function adverbially or adjectivally. In other words, it can both tell how something happens, and it can describe a noun. For example, “The brown-eyed kitten lay with a peaceful expression” contains both types of prepositional phrase. “Brown-eyed” describes the noun “kitten,” so it’s adjectival. The words “with serene expression” tell how the kitten lies, making it an adjectival preposition.
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