Sunteți pe pagina 1din 19

English Composition & Comprehension

Lecture 8
Contents
• Preposition..?
• Phrases..?
• Types of Phrases..?
Preposition..?
• A preposition may have two or more objects
as:
• The road runs over hill and plain.
Preposition
• A preposition is usually placed before its
object.
• The boy is sitting on the chair.
• Sometimes the object is placed first for the
sake of emphasis.
• What are you looking at.
Preposition
• Prepositions usually answer the questions
where? or when?, telling us about a person or
object’s location in either time or space.
Phrases
• Phrases are a group of words that lacks a
subject, predicate, or both.
• A phrase is a group of words that does not
have a subject or a verb.
• Eating a peach
• Under the teacher’s desk
• After seeing the Taj Mahal
• To buy a new phone
Types of phrases
 Noun Phrases
 Adjective Phrases
 Adverb Phrases
 Prepositional Phrases
Noun Phrase
• A noun phrase consists of a noun and other
related words (usually modifiers) which
modify the noun. It function like a noun in a
sentence.
• A phrase headed by a noun or pronoun.
• Examples:
• The girl seems happy.
• The tall man pointed me.
Adjective Phrases
• Phrase that acts as an adjective and modifies a noun.
• Sometimes a group of words does the work of an
adjective and is called adjective phrase.
• It build upon an adjective which functions as the
headword of the phrase.
• Example:
• She seemed extremely pleasant.
• You are much quicker than I.
Adverb Phrase
• Adverb Phrase- phrase that acts as an adverb and
modifies a verb.
• An adverb phrase refers to a phrase that often plays the
role of telling us when, where, why, or how an event
occurred, in which the adverb functions as the headword
of the phrase.
• We are expecting him to come next year.
• He ran very quickly.
• Later in the afternoon, the storm brought high winds and
rain.
Prepositional Phrases
• Prepositional- starts with a preposition and ends
with a noun or pronoun. It will never contain the
subject or verb of the sentences.
• A prepositional phrase includes a preposition, its
object, and any modifiers of the object.
• The boy is leaning against the wall.
• She is walking on the road.
Prepositional Phrases
• Can be used as adjectives (words that describe a noun or
pronoun). Adjectives answer what kind, how many,
which one.
• The boy with him is his son.
• (With is the preposition, and with him is the prepositional
phrase. The prepositional phrase functions as an adjective
phrase, modifying boy.)
• We stayed at the cabin by the river.
• (By is the preposition, and by the river is the prepositional
phrase. The prepositional phrase functions as an adjective
phrase, modifying cabin.)
Prepositional Phrases
• Can be used as Adverbs (words that describe verbs, adjectives, or
other adverbs). Adverbs answer where, when, how, or to what
extent.
• I’ll meet you after school.
• (After is the preposition, and after school is the prepositional phrase.
The prepositional phrase functions as an adverb phrase,
modifying meet.)
• We climbed up the hill to see the view.
• (Up is the preposition, and up the hill is the prepositional phrase.
The prepositional phrase functions as an adverb phrase,
modifying climbed.)

S-ar putea să vă placă și