Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Prepositional Phrases and What They Modify

Most prepositional phrases function as adjectives, as adverbs, or both. Just as with regular adjectives and adverbs, to determine the function of a prepositional phrase you need to first find what it describes.

Read more about how prepositional phrases function.

Try this quiz -- if you get the ones wrong about infinitive, gerund and participal phrases wrong, that is fine -- we are doing those later. Basically I want you to think about whether the prepositional phrases describe (modify) the VERB or the NOUN. If it refers to the verb, it's being used as an adverb. If it refers to the noun, it's being used as an adjective.

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