Unit 1
Unit 1
Unit 1
['with a cute baby' becomes a prepositional phrase and it has a complement 'baby' and a
word (adjective) 'cute' which modifies the noun or complement, 'baby']
Example
Lee raised his small mackerel (marine fish) with utmost pride. (adverb of manner)
Before the war, Chris played football for Barnstoneworth United. (adverb of time)
Example
The man on the radio has a boring voice. (describes the man)
Give me one of the brown ones. (may be a brown cake) (describes the pronoun, 'one')
Eg:
She was taken ill during the trip. (preposition + noun phrase)
Prepositional phrases consist of a preposition and the words which follow it. (a
complement).
From there, it'll take you about half an hour to our house. (preposition + adverb)
Until quite recently, no one knew about his paintings. (preposition + adverb phrase)
If you can wait until after my meeting with Sanadhanan, we can talk then. (preposition +
prepositional phrase)
We can put an adverb before a preposition to modify it. This applies mainly to
prepositions of time or place (above, before, far, deep, down, opposite):
You can't miss it. His office is almost opposite the coffee shop.
At the minimum, a prepositional phrase will begin with a preposition and end with a
noun, pronoun, gerund, or clause, the "object" of the preposition. The object of the
preposition will often have one or more modifiers to describe it.
Example
Keep in time.
Eg:
Bernard Shaw hasn't an enemy in the world, and none of his friends like him. (said by
Oscar Wilde)
Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts. (Singer Jim Morrison)
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right. more than
half the time. (Writer Elwyn Brooks White) ("Half" is plural because "people" is plural.)
Half of the world knows not how the other half lives.
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
My guess is that well over eighty percent of the human race goes without having a single
original thought. (Satirist HL Mencken)
("Eighty percent" is singular and "human race" is singular.)
I. Fill in the blanks with any one of the following prepositional phrases suitably:
In favour of, by dint of, with an eye to, by virtue of,
in compliance with, in case of, conformably to, agreeably to,
against all odds, in lieu of, in consequence of, for the sake of
1. He emerged victorious ………..
2. .......... the terms of settlement, we have enclosed a cheque.
3. ……… of the power invested in me by the management, I order to appoint him.
4. I don't say anything ……….. of saying. I mean what I say.
5. Mother always speaks …..... her child.
6. …….. hard work, he succeeded in his mission.
7. ……….. emergency, make a call to Shakthi.
8. Whatever he does, he does …….... the main opportunity.
9. Our trading should be ......... law.
10. We speak ………….. the rumour we have heard but we should not spread rumour.
11. ………. of the pandemic, many works have been delayed.
12. The winners took the cash award …….... the prize.