The key to handling prepositional phrases well is understanding reader expectations. Readers usually presume that a modifier applies to the noun or verb closest to it.

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.

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 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 ...

It is a peculiar hubris of California's legislators that they often presume to extend the application of the state's laws beyond its legal borders. ...

The resulting phrases are all similarly succinct and expressive. Which is to say, the "because-noun" form is limited only to the confines of your own imagination. It can be anything you want it to be.

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 ...

In a move that definitely couldn’t backfire at all, game studio Zynga has filed a lawsuit over the use of the phrase “… with friends.” I guess from now on we can only hang out with ...

In this episode we focus on the use of word form groups such as noun, verb and preposition phrases.