{"id":51730,"date":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writemyessayfree.com\/what-is-a-prepositional-phrase"},"modified":"2017-08-16T12:37:17","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T12:37:17","slug":"what-is-a-prepositional-phrase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/what-is-a-prepositional-phrase\/","title":{"rendered":"What is a prepositional phrase?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A prepositional phrase is a preposition plus the subject of the preposition (noun or pronoun it is suceeded).<\/p>\n<p>A <b>preposition<\/b> is a word (usually a short word) that shows the relationship between two other two nearby words. The word preposition means positioned before, so it will sit before a noun or a pronoun to show that word&#8217;s relationship to another nearby word.<\/p>\n<p>For example (prepositions in bold):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a boy <b>from<\/b> the ghetto (the preposition from tells us the relationship between ghetto and boy.)<\/li>\n<li>a bone <b>for<\/b> the dog (the preposition for tells us the relationship between dog and bone.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The following are all examples of : in, on, at, around, above, near, underneath, alongside, of, and for.<\/p>\n<p>A <b>prepositional phrase<\/b> is made up of a preposition and the object of the preposition (including any modifiers). Prepositional phrases are very common. They function as either adjectives or adverbs. For example:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a message <b>from Mark<\/b> . (the prepositional phrase from Mark is functioning like an adjective because it is describing message.)<\/li>\n<li>Mark is trapped <b>on the island<\/b> . (the prepositional phrase on the island is functioning as an adverb because it is modifying the verb is trapped.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sources: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grammar-monster.com\/lessons\/prepositions.htm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.grammar-monster.com\/lessons\/prepositions.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hope this helps! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A prepositional phrase is a preposition plus the subject of the preposition (noun or pronoun it is suceeded). A preposition is a word (usually a short word) that shows the relationship between two other two nearby words. The word preposition <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/what-is-a-prepositional-phrase\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}