Prepositional phrase

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  1. Hello, everyone and welcome to today's class.
  2. Today we will be talking about prepositions and prepositional phrases.
  3. First things first, let's begin with the definitions.
  4. A proposition is the word that tells you where
  5. or when something is in relation to something else.
  6. For example, if I ask you, where is your pencil
  7. and you tell me it's on the table,
  8. the preposition is on,
  9. so the proposition is telling us where
  10. something is, where the pen is in relationship to something else.
  11. So you're telling me where the pencil is in relationship to
  12. the table. It's on the table.
  13. Mhm.
  14. A prepositional phrase
  15. is the phrase itself that contains the proposition.
  16. So let's go back to our example. The pan is on the table on the table.
  17. These three words on the table is a prepositional phrase.
  18. Every prepositional phrase has to include a preposition,
  19. which is on in our example.
  20. A prepositional phrase usually answers questions
  21. how, when or where.
  22. This is how you figure out what the proposition of phrase of a sentence is.
  23. If it answers these questions, how, when and where.
  24. Let's look at the examples in front of us. A new railroad is under construction.
  25. So this describes how the route is, which is under construction.
  26. Under is the preposition under construction is the prepositional phrase.
  27. Never tell tales out of school.
  28. Out is the preposition
  29. Out of school is the prepositional phrases.
  30. Some of the common prepositional phrases include timing, for example,
  31. when we say during the lesson before the fight
  32. in a hurry, at at least for fun.
  33. So the words that you see in colours these are propositions. But the entire
  34. word
  35. in every phrase is a prepositional phrase, so during
  36. separately is a preposition. But during the lesson is a prepositional phrase.
  37. Let's do this exercise together.
  38. Let's try to find the prepositional phrase in every sentence. Helen Sled.
  39. The nap can hold her across the table,
  40. so let's go back to our role. How one where
  41. where the talent slid the napkin holder
  42. across the table. So the prepositional phrase is across the table.
  43. The preposition is across.
  44. Everyone was exhausted after the celebration. When was everyone exhausted
  45. after the celebration?
  46. So the prepositional phrases after the celebration after is the preposition.
  47. Did you see many old friends at the wedding?
  48. At the wedding? He answered the question one
  49. or where at the wedding is the prepositional phrase at is the preposition
  50. A traffic helicopter hovered above us. Where did the traffic helicopter hover
  51. above us? Above us is a prepositional phrase above by itself is the preposition.
  52. We will talk more about this in class. Thank you for listening.