Function Substantive Attributive Adverbial Part of Speech Noun or Pronoun noun with various case endings Preposition article + preposition + object preposition + object anarthrous preposition + object For a prepositional phrase to be used as a substantive (in place of a noun), it must be preceded by an article. If the prepositional phrase modifies a noun (attributive usage), it will generally match the articular status of the noun (i.e., if the noun has
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