The prepositional phrase in the sentence "he walked along the tightrope slowly" is "along the tightrope." "Along" is the preposition, and "the tightrope" is the object of the preposition. This phrase provides additional information about where the action of walking took place.
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
along side the lake
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
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".
along side the lake
No, it is a sentence. The word past is a preposition, with the object house.
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".
An example of a compound prepositional phrase in a sentence is "She walked down the street and into the park." In this sentence, "down the street" and "into the park" are both compound prepositional phrases because they each consist of more than one prepositional phrase combined together to provide more detail about the action of walking.
no
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