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The family headed to church after breakfast.

How? Where? or When? are the questions that it answers. (Which student?)Īnd then the prepositional phrase can be seen as the adverb of a sentence.

The student at the end of the line is misbehaving again.

Please get the book above the cupboard.

It will be the answer to the question “which one?”. Now there are certain times where a prepositional phrase will act as an adjective for a sentence.

Please turn t owards the right at the intersection.

Such a phrase also at times consists of other modifiers describing the object of the prepositional phrase.

They have been playing since the last two hoursĪny phrase that consists of a preposition, and the object of the preposition, which will be a noun or a pronoun s what we call a prepositional phrase.

The phrase consists of the main verb/verbs and then auxiliary verbs, i.e. But sometimes the action being described requires a more nuanced multi-words verb phrase.

Alex rode her old bicycle to their shiny new schoolĮvery sentence will generally contain a verb.

The entire phrase will act as a noun for that particular sentence. The modifier can prefix or suffix the noun. These are the phrases contains a noun- name, place or things and at least one modifier associated to the noun. (Source: infogram) Types of Phrases 1] Noun Phrases So is “the old, smelly, shivering dog” is also a phrase.

This does not have any connection to whether it is a phrase or a sentence. The length of the phrase may differ from two words to many more words. It does not contain the subject and the predicate both, so it is not a clause either. By itself, a phrase is not a complete sentence, as it does not relay a complete thought. A phrase is a group or combination of two or more words.