The Prepositional Phrases

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THE PREPOSITIONAL PHRASESBy : Aisyah Nur Saadah, Aviana Fadeline Siregar, Deffy Ayu Dyah,

Dira Permata Sari, Pradita Nurrita



The Prepositional Phrase

Recognize a prepositional phrase whenyou see one.

Prepositional phrases modify nouns and verbs whileindicating various relationships between subjects and verbs. They are used to color and inform sentences in powerful ways.

At the minimum, a prepositional phrase will begin with apreposition and end with a noun, pronoun, gerund, or clause,the "object" of the preposition.

The object of the preposition will often have one or moremodifiers to describe it. These are the patterns for aprepositional phrase:

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Simply, Prepositional Phrases BEGIN with a preposition, END with a noun



So, here are the examples of basicprepositions.



and as for the prepositional phrases:





Understand what prepositional phrases do in a sentence.

A prepositional phrase will function as an adjective oradverb. As an adjective, the prepositional phrase willanswer the question Which one?

Read these examples:

The book on the bathroom floor is swollen from showersteam.

Which book? The one on the bathroom floor!

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As an adverb, a prepositional phrasewill answer questions such as How?

When? or Where?

Freddy is stiff from yesterday's long footballpractice.

How did Freddy get stiff? From yesterday's longfootball practice!



Remember that a prepositional phrase willnever contain the subject of a sentence.

Sometimes a noun within the prepositionalphrase seems the logical subject of a verb. Don'tfall for that trick! You will never find a subject in aprepositional phrase. Look at this example:

Neither of these cookbooks contains the recipe for

Manhattan-style squid eyeball stew.Cookbooks do indeed contain recipes. In this

sentence, however, cookbooks is part of theprepositional phrase of these cookbooks. Neither—whatever a neither is—is the subject for the verb

contains.Neither is singular, so you need the singular

form of the verb, contains. If you incorrectly identified cookbooks as the subject, you mightwrite contain, the plural form, and thus commit a

subject-verb agreement error.


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It happens many times that prepositions, conjunctions, and some adverbshave identical forms; therefore, it is easy to confuse or to use themincorrectly. The best method to detect prepositions is by analyzing thesyntactic functionality of each linked sentence element.

Prepositions link two sentence elements having different syntacticfunctions. For example: verbs and their direct objects; nouns and theirattributes; etc.

Conjunctions link two morphologic/syntactic elements of the same type(including two prepositions), or two sentences.

The adverb determines only one sentence element (a verb, a noun, anadjective, or another adverb) or an entire sentence. Few instances of detecting prepositions are highlighted next.

Examples:We met her after lunch. (preposition)We thanked them after they did it . (conjunction)We left shortly after . (adverb)



EXERCISE!



EXERCISE!Q: I'd rather have wine ____ beer.

instead than

instead from

instead to

instead of

Q: _____ bad weather, the trip will be postponed tonext week.

In case

In case of

In case to

In case from

Q: _____ my fellow employees, I would like to

thank management for all they have done to

improve our situation.

In behalf of

To behalf of

On behalf of

From behalf of

Q: We finally solved our problem ____ a newdevice created by our research and

development department.

from means of

by means of

by means from

by means to

Q: _____ me, I will be happy to dedicate a few

extra hours to the cause.

As for

As of

As to

As from

Q: You will have to remember that, _____

John, no one wants to work on this problem.

apart to

apart from

apart

apart of



Q: How can they be going out?! Jane has

nothing _____ Peter.

in common

in common to

in common of

in common with

Q: _____ John, they won't finish the projectuntil the end of next week.

According

According in

According from

According to

Q: I'm all ____ helping out the poor when inneed.

in favor of

in favor to

in favor for

in favor from

EXERCISE!Q: We will have to postpone our trip _____ the bad

weather. because

because to

because of

because from

Q: Because of the _____ interest in our product, we

are going to stop production of the 'whamo ring'.

lack

lack of

lack from

lack in

Q: _____ the large number of requests we havereceived, we are going to extend the sale to the end of

the month.

Due to

Due of

Due from

Due



1. Upon my arrival, I was whisked into a secret

chamber.

2. I can't complete the report without theinformation.

3. Who says you can go around the world in eighty

days?4. Come into the garden with me.

5. She wanted to go to the movies.

6. The girl from Pampa left her purse in the writinglab.

7. The stories in that book were translated by myprofessor.

8. She was looking for a man with money.

9. That icture behind m desk used to han in the

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