This video is about prepositional phrases. What is a prepositional phrase? Really, it’s any short phrase that begins with a preposition, followed by a noun, pronoun, gerund, or short clause ...

A preposition takes as its object a noun phrase — a noun or pronoun with or without modifiers. “For” is a preposition, but “awhile” isn’t a noun. It’s an adverb.

A preposition is a word that tells you where or when something is in relation to something else. Find out more in this Bitesize Primary KS2 English guide.

Some nouns, particularly abstract nouns, have to be followed by a prepositional phrase in order to demonstrate what they relate to. They cannot just stand by themselves. There is usually only one ...

Prepositional because can be yoked to verbs (Can’t talk now because cooking), adjectives (making up examples because lazy), interjections (Because yay!), and maybe adverbs too, though in strings ...

Our example sentences above flummox the Stanford Parser, which fails to analyse "modulo" as a preposition. So if you already knew how to use "modulo", a gold star for you.