along the tightrope
Along the tightrope.
along the tightrope
Along the tightrope.
The prepositional phrase in the sentence is "through the school hallway." It functions as an adverbial phrase that describes where the student walked.
I walked down the street. "down the street" is a prepositiional phrase.
up the stairs
"alongside the lake"
up the stairs
I walked down the street. "down the street" is a prepositiional phrase.
By is a preposition, it is used to start a prepositional phrase as in, "I walked by the water."
The prepositional phrase is "as you walked along the beach".
"alongside the lake"
No, "walked" is the verb and "past the yellow house" is a prepositional phrase indicating where the subject walked. "Past" is the preposition in the phrase.
A verb phrase is the verb and its dependents (objects, complements, and other modifiers), but not the subject or its dependents.The verb phrase in the sentence is "slowly walked down the road".The subject is the pronoun "They".
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Prepositional phrasesThe bolded phrases are examples of prepositional phrases in English:She is on the computer. (She is using the computer.)Ryan could hear her across the room.David walked down the ramp.They walked to their school.Philip ate in the kitchen.Prepositional phrases have a preposition as the central element of the phrase. In contrast to other types of phrases, this cannot be described as a head, since the preposition cannot stand on its own. The remaining parts of the phrase, usually a noun phrase, are called the prepositional complement.Consecutive Prepositional PhrasesAcross the street from their house , in an empty lot between two houses, stood the rock pile. James Baldwin, "Going to Meet the Man".Then they came up the street and around the house. Hal Borland, Whenthe Legends Die.--Bint Zubair
Thomas Coombs
Let's break the sentence down. You'll find that Jamie is the subject, and walked is the verb. Where did Jamie walk? Jamie walked through the dark alley. That is a prepositional phrase, and through is the proposition.
Slowly is actually an adjective, it describes the verb. For example, "she walked slowly" walked is the verb and slowly describes how she walked.