Understanding grammar basics will make you a better writer, and mastering prepositional phrases is key. To improve your writing and communicate clearly to your audience, know what prepositional ...

Teachers often face the challenge of helping students identify prepositional phrases in sentences. Prepositional phrases are a type of grammatical structure that can be challenging to identify and ...

A general rule that is posited for punctuating both types of subordinate clauses: (1) that and which clauses and (2) adverb (and adjective) clauses. This chapter discusses the explanatory phrases, ...

'I just didn’t see them. I drove through the traffic lights when they were red.' 'He wasn’t tall enough and couldn’t climb over the fence.' In these two examples, through and over are prepositions and ...

In these examples, down and back are not prepositions but function as adverbs to extend or change the meaning of the verb. This combination of verb and adverb is always known as a phrasal verb. Note ...