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Prepositional Phrases as Adverbial or Adjectival

Prepositional Phrases as Adverbial or Adjectival

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Prepositional phrases can function as either adverbial or adjectival phrases, depending on how they modify or provide additional information about other elements in a sentence.

  1. Adverbial Prepositional Phrases:

    • Adverbial prepositional phrases modify verbs, adjectives, or adverbs, providing information about time, place, manner, cause, condition, or purpose.
    • Examples:
      • "He ran in the park." (modifies the verb "ran" to indicate where he ran)
      • "She spoke with confidence." (modifies the verb "spoke" to indicate how she spoke)
      • "They drove through the tunnel." (modifies the verb "drove" to indicate the route)
  2. Adjectival Prepositional Phrases:

    • Adjectival prepositional phrases modify nouns, pronouns, or noun phrases, providing additional information or describing the noun.
    • Examples:
      • "The book on the table is mine." (modifies the noun "book" to indicate its location)
      • "The girl with the blue dress is my sister." (modifies the noun phrase "girl" to describe her appearance)
      • "The house across the street is for sale." (modifies the noun "house" to indicate its position)

 

It's important to note that prepositional phrases can sometimes be omitted without changing the basic meaning of a sentence. However, including them adds detail, specificity, and clarity to the sentence. Understanding the adverbial and adjectival functions of prepositional phrases will help you use them effectively in your writing and communication to provide additional information and enhance the meaning of your sentences.

Prepositional phrases can function as either adverbial or adjectival phrases, depending on how they modify or provide additional information about other elements in a sentence.

  1. Adverbial Prepositional Phrases:

    • Adverbial prepositional phrases modify verbs, adjectives, or adverbs, providing information about time, place, manner, cause, condition, or purpose.
    • Examples:
      • "He ran in the park." (modifies the verb "ran" to indicate where he ran)
      • "She spoke with confidence." (modifies the verb "spoke" to indicate how she spoke)
      • "They drove through the tunnel." (modifies the verb "drove" to indicate the route)
  2. Adjectival Prepositional Phrases:

    • Adjectival prepositional phrases modify nouns, pronouns, or noun phrases, providing additional information or describing the noun.
    • Examples:
      • "The book on the table is mine." (modifies the noun "book" to indicate its location)
      • "The girl with the blue dress is my sister." (modifies the noun phrase "girl" to describe her appearance)
      • "The house across the street is for sale." (modifies the noun "house" to indicate its position)

 

It's important to note that prepositional phrases can sometimes be omitted without changing the basic meaning of a sentence. However, including them adds detail, specificity, and clarity to the sentence. Understanding the adverbial and adjectival functions of prepositional phrases will help you use them effectively in your writing and communication to provide additional information and enhance the meaning of your sentences.

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Kaviyavijay

Healthcare is the backbone to all the conutries. The mixture of both poor people and rich people in the county, i competly agree that government should spend money for hospitiality. I will discuss and elaborate in below paragraph

Firstly, i firmly agree that administration are not supplying medicine to the needy, they should provied free treatment to all citizens instead of spending alot of money in establishing unwanted Bridge, Art works, Alcohol, they can increase prime cost to medicial system. For instance (In India, the tamilnadu introduced free health check up for elder citizen ) the health minister come up with free therapy to the needy and it is much useful while the medical products are extortionate to buy so, the can decrease the value of budget immaterial goods.Eventually Health minister should coordinate with richest country like Russia, America, Dubai and Australia to import the equipment for treatment and supply to every hospital mainly in Urban area's.

Secondly, in Canada , United State of America and Germany are offering cashless treatment ,However they are collecting high tax for travel tax, sin tax and payroll. The cabinet give major roll to the prime cost for hospitailites could lower the cost of death who are all unable to pay.

In conclusion the body of health plays major roll to each and everyone's life the government should export medical equipment and price should be affortable to buy based on their income. The government should be active in scheme of free health services system.

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Can anyone please help me review my writing task one and let me know what band it can fit into. thankyou in advance.

Musa

can anyone review my essay and give me band from 0 to 9

Musa

Some people think living in big cities is bad for people's health.Living in big cities can be dangerous for health but in big cities ,there are large numbers of facilities that is not available in villages or small towns such as hospitals .In cities there are variety of hospitals with all facilities of proper treatment Especially The equipments or machines that can be use in treatment.

I agree that living in big cities is dangerous for health ,especially for older peoples because there is lot of noise in big and rush places and big cities are always a busy place and the noises coming from vehicles effect their health in certain ways because at that age they want peace in their lives .A little bit of noise irritates them and also usually in big cities ,Environmental pollution is very common that can also effect their health badly especially attack on breathing cycle.

But in some aspects. i support to live in big cities due to their wide range of facilities .For example if someone would have serious problem and there is need to take them to hospital and at that time he immediately need a treatment but the cure is not available on that time what would you do if you are living in small town or village but if you're living in city then there is no problem because they have variety of private and public hospitals of all type of machinery and treatment and specialist doctor available at 24 hours in emergency.And also in my family this was happened when my uncle had heart attack and at that time we were living in small town.when we went to the hospital in our town ,they said to us that you have to take him in big city hospital because we don't have any treament and they told us that you would have to take as early as possible this is why i prefer to living in big city because i don't consider as much effect on peoples living in big cities but i mentined few causes above that is in my point of view.

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Aniket Hankare

Hi, this is my first writing mock, can please someone guide me & let me know how am I supposed to structure it more eloquently?


Here in the given table, it showcases the the amount of waste production done by the major 6 countries over a period of 20 Year.

From the past 20 years, starting from 1980 to 2000, these six countries have constantly been increasing their waste production.

A surprising fact is that are some countries like Ireland & Korea who haven't produced any amount of waste production in specific years.
US has been a major contributor for the production of waste over the years and have always surpassed its contribution from the past 20 years

Talking about Korea, you can see a gradual decrease in the amount of waste production from the year 1990 to 2000 which is a good sign, unlike US, their production of waste keeps increasing at an accelerated rate.

A special consideration for Poland, as the production of waste starting from 1980 to 2000 has minimal growth if compared to others.

Anonymous

Very good practise series got L:7.5,W:6,R:8,S:6.5 Overall 7

mallika

The bar chart provides the information about leisure time enjoyed by males and  females of five employement's status. units of measurements is in ''TIME''.
Overall, males enjoying constant time in sectors of unemployed and retired whereas, there is no males in the the employed part time and housewives as we can see in the given diagram.
To begin with, males who are in employed for full time has nearly fifty hours time to relax. the men who are unemployed and retired has exactly 80 hours leisure time in a week.
However, females who are working full time has nearest to forty five hours time to enjoy  themselves and also the women's who are working part time has more than 40hours free time moreover, the ladies who are unemployed and retired has same time of 70 hours gents crossed ladies in this two sectors finally, housewives has crossed half of the time to spend their time with family members.

Ceren
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