Neither Nicholas nor Seymour completed the locution with the prepositional phrase " of Europe, " which appears to have been added later and may very well have been journalistic misquotation.
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In English, intransitive verbs can be used in the passive voice when a prepositional phrase is included, as in, " The houses were lived in by millions of people ."
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The subject is " video game cartridges . " Therefore, if you remove the prepositional phrase, the sentence states that sales of video game cartridges rapidly ran into the millions.
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An indirect object can often be " re-worded " with a prepositional phrase using " to " or " for ", but it is then no longer an indirect object.
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The third rule means that an N ( noun ) can be preceded by an optional AP ( adjective phrase ) and followed by an optional PP ( prepositional phrase ).
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A couple of weeks earlier, a cheerful harangue in the same space about tax cuts included a prepositional phrase : " But the economy is now operating at full bore ."
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In the oblique dative ( OD ) form, the verb takes a noun phrase ( NP ) and a prepositional phrase ( PP ), the second of which is not an argument.
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A prepositional phrase like in The Wall Street Journal is a modifier and should cozy up intimately to the noun it modifies, lest another, closer noun be mistaken for the term being modified.
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I've recently noticed a lot of occurrences of the prepositional phrase " downstream the X " ( e . g . " The pressure downstream the filters is . . . " ).
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Similarly, prepositional phrase consists of a preposition together with its complement ( and is therefore usually a type of adverb phrase ); and a determiner phrase is a type of noun phrase containing a determiner.
