Prepositional-phrase Sentence Examples

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  • A prepositional phrase usually starts with around, before, for, onto, over, to or through.

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  • This quote from Albert Einsten includes a prepositional phrase - "Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them"

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  • A prepositional phrase has a preposition and an object.

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