English Prepositional Phrases
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What is a prepositional phrase?
A prepositional phrase is a group of words starting with a preposition and ending with a noun, pronoun or a noun phrase (the object of the preposition).Prepositional phrases give us more information about the word(s) they describe.
Example:
Take a look at the following sentence: "They live in the big house."
The underlined part starts with a preposition (in) and ends with the object of the preposition (the big house). It gives us more information about where they live. Therefore it is a prepositional phrase.
Additional prepositional phrase examples (the prepositional phrase is in bold):
- Joe dived into
the water.
- They sat in
the old green car.
- The men are working for
the money.
- Every morning
we take a walk in the park.
- Don't shout at
me.
- Put the vase by
the window.
- Let's look at
the new photos.
- Benny met the kids from
school.
- The painting of
the sunset is beautiful.
- The dog jumped over
the fence.
- He came to
the house late at night.
- Can you help me with
my homework?
- Susan and Betty will meet next week.
- Before going out, clean your room.
English prepositional phrases can be divided into two subcategories:
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