A prepositional phrase is made up of a preposition and its object: with cheese, ... In each, you have a preposition like “with,” “on,” “at” or “of,” paired with a noun phrase ...

These phrases contain a determiner and a noun, but they also contain a preposition, a word that shows the relationship of a noun phrase to the rest of the sentence.

A preposition takes as its object a noun phrase — a noun or pronoun with or without modifiers. “For” is a preposition, but “awhile” isn’t a noun. It’s an adverb.

A preposition heads a prepositional phrase, and usually takes a noun phrase as its complement. And so in "Notwithstanding the rain, it was an excellent night out", "notwithstanding" can only be a ...

Some nouns, particularly abstract nouns, have to be followed by a prepositional phrase in order to demonstrate what they relate to. They cannot just stand by themselves. There is usually only one ...

Let’s put a noun, verb and preposition phrase together. In the sentence: “The IELTS test finished at one o’clock on Friday.”, we have a noun phrase , a verb phrase , and a preposition phrase .