hello everyone how are you today this is Marc I'm doing great thanks for asking
could you pass me the book with a blue cover ? despite my warning he
quitted his well-paid job - my house is next to a famous hotel in this lesson
we're going to look at prepositional phrases so stay tuned yes
what are prepositional phrases ? they are a number of words made up of a
preposition and its object - the object could be an article a noun a pronoun
gerund or even a clause so I gave you some examples through the between a and
like the until morning for example during etc according to someone around
the around the block for example near the near the house for example of the so
a prepositional phrase can act as an adjective or an adverb let's look at
acting as an adjective so we have the example could you pass me the book with
the blue cover so with a blue cover describes the object the book right is
the object of this example so with the blue cover so this is the adjective
so the prepositional phrase describing the book so it's acting as an adjective
another example the nightlife in my area is quite fun - so in my area
describes the nightlife right the nightlife in my area prepositional
phrase is quite fun so this is prepositional phrases acting as an
adjective so acting as an adverb the example that I gave you at the beginning
was despite my warning he quitted his well-paid job so despite my warning is
acting as an adverb here and is a prepositional phrase
despite plus the object my warning and noun another example - let the old lady
enter the office before others let the old lady enter the office before others
so for example I'm saying this to an employee
let the old lady enter the office before others - before others is an under
adverb here and is a prepositional phrase right because we have the
preposition before and then others which is a noun so I said that prepositional
phrases can act as adjectives and adverbs but also as nominals there are
cases when some words can act as nouns but they aren't actually nouns these
words are called nominals if a prepositional phrase is preceded by the
verb to be they work as nominals let me give you examples to explain this better
my house is next to a famous hotel so next to a famous hotel here is the
prepositional phrase right because we have the preposition next to and then a
famous hotel a noun and so if we conjugate this this
phrase we see my house as the subject then we have the verb to be and then the
prepositional phrase next to a famous hotel so this is the nominals
these words are called nominals the last example my debate was among the most
interesting and here we have among the most interesting the prepositional
phrase and is acting as nominal so among preposition plus the most
interesting is the adjective remember though that prepositional phrases are
extremely important because they can modify the sentence completely so think
about what you write first try to understand their function and form in
order to choose a style especially when writing that's it for today thank you
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