prepositional phrase
noun
a phrase consisting of a preposition, its object, which is usually a noun or a pronoun, and any modifiers of the object, as in the gray desk I use.
prepositional phrases
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pluralof prepositional phrase.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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But she points out that even when using an algorithm and controlling for prepositional phrases and the like, significant overlap occurs between the lists of most frequently used words in high-peace and low-peace countries.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 1, 2023
But what really gets me is the order of the words, the clustering of all those prepositional phrases near the start.
From New York Times ● Nov. 7, 2017
But bit by bit the language is taking shape, definite articles and nouns and indirect objects and verbs and prepositional phrases hanging off subjects and predicates and predicate complements like a Calder mobile.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 1, 2016
Smetanka doesn’t know what’s in the book, but he knows Krakauer has tapped prepositional phrases for other titles.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 19, 2015
Then she claps her hands and starts talking about prepositional phrases.
From "A Good Kind of Trouble" by Lisa Moore Ramée
