Prepositional phrases

Before we move on, let's recap what we know so far:

• Prepositions are words and word groups that help us give more detail and create relationships between actions and things.
• Prepositions almost always introduce a noun group to create a prepositional phrase.
• Prepositional phrases help us communicate a range of meanings—not just where and when, but for how long, who with, in what way, what like and so on.
• We can chain prepositional phrases together or nest them inside each other.
• Prepositional phrases are key to expanding on detail.
• That said, it's very easy to go overboard with prepositional phrases—you need to think about what you're writing.
• Sometimes words and word groups appear on first glance to be a preposition, but in fact are an adverb or some other type of word—and while this can sometimes be confusing, it's nothing to get worked up about; English is just a confusing language sometimes.

Now we've done all the complicated stuff, let's do something that is 90% simple and 10% challenging.