SUMMARY OF PREPOSITIONAL PHRASE

AS ADJECTIVE AND ADVERB

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PREPOSITIONAL PHRASE

A phrase is a group of words without a subject and verb, used as one part of speech. (There are
several types of phrases including the verb phrase, noun phrase, and prepositional phrase.)

A prepositional phrase is a group of words that begins with a preposition and usually ends with a
noun or a pronoun, called the object of the preposition. Adjectives and other modifiers may be placed
between the preposition and its object. A preposition may have more than on e object.

Example:

He put the note into his pocket. (Pocket is the object of the preposition into.)

Prepositional phrases may occur sequentially in a sentence.

Example:

He put the note into the pocket of his shirt.

 A prepositional phrase is usually used as an adjective or an adverb.

When prepositional phrases are used as adjectives, the phrase comes immediately after the noun or
pronoun it modifies or it modifies a noun or a pronoun. The phrase answers one of the following
questions about the word it modifies: Which one? What kind of? How many? Whose?

Example:

My check (for the dress) is in the mail. The prepositional phrase, "for the dress," tells which check.
The phrase is used as an adjective modifying the noun "check."

When prepositional phrases are used as adverbs, they may be found any place in the sentence. The
adverb phrase tells how, when, where, or under what condition about a verb, adjective, or adverb.
It modifies an adjective, a verb, or another adverb.

Example:

The boy fell (on the steps.) The phrase "on the steps" tells where the boy fell. It modifies the verb
"fell" and is used as an adverb.

Example:

1. We read the book about the West. (adjective phrase modifying the noun book)

2. Who around town could help us hang posters? (adjective phrase modifying the pronoun
who)

3. She parks her new car in the garage. (adverb phrase modifying the verb parks)

4. The job is easy for you. (adverb phrase modifying the adjective easy)

5. She reads well for her age. (adverb phrase modifying the adverb well)

Prepositional phrases that modifies nouns

When a prepositional phrase acts upon a noun, we say it is behaving adjectivally because adjectives
modify nouns. A prepositional phrase that behaves adjectivally is called, quite logically, an adjectival
phrase.

Example:

1. The cat in the middle is the cutest.

2. I always buy my milk from the convenience store on Main Street.

3. My mother has always wanted to live in a cabin by the lake.

4. The book with the tattered cover has been read many times.

5. All the passengers aboard the runaway train were frightened.

6. The present inside the box is mine.

7. The clues within the first few chapters will lead to the murderer.

8. His is only one voice among many, but it will be heard.

9. The extra blanket is in the box under the bed.

10. Saul, unlike many others, will remain there.

11. The car beside the red one is the one I want to buy.

12. The area outside the boundary is dangerous to cross.

13. All rooms below deck are for sleeping.

14. Tell me the story about the dragon slayer.

Prepositional Phrases That Modify Verbs

When a prepositional phrase acts upon a verb, we say it is behaving adverbially because adverbs
modify verbs. A prepositional phrase that behaves adverbially is called an adverbial phrase.
 Example:

(1) To find the person who stole the last cookie, look behind you.

(2) Harry drank his Butter beer with fervor.

In the first sentence, behind you answers the question “Look where?” In the second, with
fervor answers the question “Drank how?”

(3) My shopping list needs to be put into my purse.

(4) Without a GPS, we will lose our way.

(5) Until today, I had never heard that.

(6) The balloon drifted up the stairs.

(7) Put the fresh flowers upon a high shelf.

(8) Against all odds, our team won the tournament.

(9) The tiger crept slowly over the grass.

(10) We will order pizza during halftime.

(11) I will climb up the highest mountain tomorrow.

(12) I love to take my jeep off the road.