Can anybody explain it to me using a very simple language (I'm a foreigner)

Jok, go here: [66.102.7.104] />
and don't be using phrases like "unheard of" "what's it about?" and "down under".



Les

I know what prepositions and prepositional phrases are but the problem is- I'm still not sure what do postmodyfying prepositional phares mean? I recon this may mean 'post' so at the end like ....
“Her hair was thick ---->with many a curl<--------
Am I right?
So it's like prepositional phrases , which are at the end???? which modify sth at the end .In the above-mention sentence the postmodyfying prepositonal phrase would concerned her thick hair, right?

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Les

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/11/2005 03:27AM by lg.

As you surmised, Jok, it's a prepositional phrase that is placed after whatever it modifies. For instance 'The man in the moon'

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At primary school we were introduced to prepositions with the jingle:

      A preposition
      shows position
      placed before a noun.

(That was a long time ago. I don’t think ‘grammar schools’ regard it as their function to teach grammar nowadays!)

But in common usage prepositions can often be placed after whatever they modify. Some amusing stuff about that here:

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No less so with prepositional phrases.

common english:
post = after
modifying = changes something (read: describes)
prepositional = something that starts with a preposition
phrase = uh, well, phrase, part of sentence, utterance.

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postmodifying prepositional phrase
something that describes a thing it is placed behind and starts with a preposition.

e.g. "In the kitchen" in the phrase: "The chair in the kitchen."

I love this kind of grammar!

thx very much

Jok, is this for a class in poetry?


Les