Talk:Adpositional phrase

great little page....except
In the section on circumpositional phrases, for English, "As far as" is mentioned just below but not included as a circumpositional phrase itself. Was that intentional? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.118.200.147 (talk) 23:31, 2 June 2014 (UTC)


 * I see no mention of as far as. --Tjo3ya (talk) 17:41, 3 June 2014 (UTC)

no star
Example a in § Prepositional phrases is starred:
 * *She walked around his desk.

The asterisk means that the sentence is ungrammatical. It isn't, and there's no explanation. The asterisk goes. --Thnidu (talk) 01:49, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

some major problems
Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.35.60.134 (talk) 4 December 2016‎ (UTC)
 * 1) The complements of prepositions are described as modifiers on this page. Being complements, they are by definition not modifiers.
 * 2) Many grammars recognise intransitive preposition, not mentioned here at all. The word "now" in the third lot of tree diagrams is  recognised by such grammars as a preposition, not an adverb.
 * 3) "The object of a prepositional phrase is to function as an adjective or adverb." <--- This makes no sense.
 * 4) Certain PPs are given here as dependents of V when they are dependents of clauses or VPs. This can be shown by the fact these PP's CAN, in fact precede or follow the clauses that they modify: "He is leaving (Paris) on Tuesday" versus "On Tuesday  he is leaving (Paris)"
 * 5) The last section is, to say the least, very misleading. Many modern grammarians and grammars such as The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language" regard the majority of the 'particles' which occur in so-called phrasal verbs as prepositions.
 * 6) It would be better to remove this page while it is rewritten than to leave it up, where it will be confusing at best and misleading at worst.