Generic Phrases
prepositional phrases???! help please?
what are the prepositional phrases in these two sentences? 1) spiders are everywhere. right now you are probably within several feet of them. (would it be everywhere? or within? i don't get it, its throwing me for a loop) 2) during their sleep, through bad luck or carelessness, people sometimes swallow spiders. (....during, or sometimes? i can't tell) help please? thanks a bundle in advance!
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- 1) of them 2) during their sleep (and) through bad luck or carelessness
- a preposition shows the relationship between a noun or pronoun and another word-----a prepositional phrase is just a phrase that starts with a preposition--- of is definitely a preposition, 'of them' connects feet and them. through is also a preposition, it connects bad luck to swallow
- A prepositional phrase contains a preposition and its object, as well as any modifiers that relate to them. So, for the first one, there are two prep. phrases: "within several feet," (within=preposition, feet=object, several=modifier) and "of them" (of=preposition, them=object) For the second: "During their sleep" and "Through bad luck or carelessness" are both prep. phrases. For the second in this sentence, there are two objects--luck and carelessness.
