Generic Phrases

please help me with this problem i do not understand prepositional phrases?

More then I need the answer I need to know how to do this. please help me. The little girl with red hair is Jane. Prepositional phrase: is it a adjective or adverb

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1. well i cant tell but i thing a adjective
2. Adjective. Describes Jane "with red hair". An adjective describes a person, place or thing. The prepositional phrase "with red hair" describes which little girl is Jane.
3. with red hair is the prep phrase. usually, if the preposition is at the end of the sentence its an adverb.
4. Not 100% sure what you're asking, but basically prepositions say where (think pre POSITION) so the prep phrase in that sentence is "with red hair" (with is the prep).
5. a prepositional phrase is a prepositional phrase, but it is describing the girl and not her actions so it would be more of an adjective than an adverb.
6. the preposition is the word that describes where/when/how/what/and the # of something. so the word with is the preposition, but the phrase is the entire phrase, "with____" so "with red hair" is the answer. but if it was She breathed heavily after jumping rope. the prepositional phrase would be "after jumping rope"
7. A prepositional phrase always begins with a preposition and ends with a noun, which is called the "object of preposition". This phrase can answer certain questions within the sentence. In the sentence "The little girl with the red heir is Jane" the prepositional phrase is "with the red hair". "With the red hair" is distinguishing WHICH girl is Jane. It also follows "girl". So the phrase is describing a noun. And I'm sure you know that adjectives describe nouns. So the phrase is acting as an adjective. Hope this helps!
8. The prepositional phrase "with the red hair" is describing the girl, which is a noun, so it is an adjective phrase. If the phrase were describing a verb, it would be an adverb phrase. Such as "The boy walked to the store." The phrase "to the store" is describing where he WALKED, which is a verb.
9. Adjective, "with red hair" modifies girl. If you diagrammed the sentence, "The", "little" and "with red hair" would all hang from "girl" (as the subject) on the first half of the line, then "is" would be on the other half of the line as the verb.
10. A preposition indicates a relation between nouns in a sentence. The preposition itself in this sentence is "with", and the nouns are "girl" and "hair" ("red" and "little" are adjectives). "With red hair" is a prepositional phrase, and in this case, it is like an adjective. You could change "with red hair" for "red-haired" which is an adjective. It would be like an adverb if if it was describing an action (verb). eg The little girl opened her present with great excitement. "With great excitement" is adverbial (I don't think you can call it an adverb - maybe it's an adverbial phrase....hopefully someone can correct me if I'm wrong). Hope this helps. Edit: Sorry, LOADS more people replied while I was writing that - I got distracted by something!
11. it's an adjective, because normally an adjective phrase comes after the word it modifies. =)