Prepositions ... put her jacket on. A sentence is built up from words. Sometimes words are grouped together in phrases. A phrase acts as a single unit of meaning – for example ‘their pet ...

A phrase is a group of two or more words that does not contain a subject and a verb working together. There are many types of phrases, including verb phrases, adverb phrases, and adjective phrases.

Examples of prepositions include words like 'after', 'before', 'on', 'under', 'inside' and 'outside'. The house was on the hill beside a tree. In this sentence 'on' and 'beside' are prepositions ...

In each of the above examples, the sentences simply do not sound right when read aloud. With practice, and even if you can't tell a prepositional phrase from a dangling participle, you can probably ...