Now, today, we're going to talk about prepositional phrases. That means it's more than just the preposition, it's a couple of other words. So a propositional phrase tells more about a noun or pronoun.

A prepositional phrase is made up of a preposition and its object: with cheese, on it, at the restaurant, of La Mancha. In each, you have a preposition like “with,” “on,” “at” or “of ...

A preposition heads a prepositional phrase, and usually takes a noun phrase as its complement. And so in "Notwithstanding the rain, it was an excellent night out", "notwithstanding" can only be a ...

But the action being described took less time than reading about it did. All those prepositional phrases slowed the sentence. Yes, nobody would write that way (or so we hope). But it’s a good example ...

Unhistory A suspiciously long prepositional phrase wasn`t the only irregularity that tipped a journalism grad student onto a mystery at Northwestern University. Mounted on a large rock on the ...

If a preposition takes an object and is, as Merriam’s notes, “usually followed by” that object, it calls into question a sentence like “What did you do that for,” in which the ...

National Of Language synth player Aidan Noell stepped out on her own late last year with the track “Prepositional Phrase,” her shockingly successful first-ever solo songwriting effort. And ...