Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases. This handout is available for download in DOCX format and PDF format. Phrases. A phrase is a group of two or more words that does not contain a subject and a ...

Welcome to the wacky world of prepositional phrases, where, if you’re not careful, you can stray so far from your meaning that people are still laughing about your communication skills a century ...

Our example sentences above flummox the Stanford Parser, which fails to analyse "modulo" as a preposition. So if you already knew how to use "modulo", a gold star for you.

But the action being described took less time than reading about it did. All those prepositional phrases slowed the sentence. Yes, nobody would write that way (or so we hope). But it’s a good example ...