Notes 1. Because beginners will be looking for prepositions (and not yet have been thinking about verbs), I have counted this as a prepositional phrase, adverbial to "think." Perhaps the better explanation is to consider "think of" as the verb (i.e., "remember"), and "anything" as its direct object. Many students will see this when they get to verbs. Ultimately, I would accept either anaysis as correct. 2. Expect errors here. Many students will
mark "After everybody" as a prepositional phrase. Point out that, in this
sentence, the response to the question "After what?" is not "after everybody,"
but rather "After everybody went home." Because the answer to the question
is a sentence, the construction is not a prepositional phrase. If the students
are just beginning their work on prepositional phrases, I would ignore
an error like this one on homework and tests.
3. I would also accept "at the bottom"
as an adjective (or adverb) to "brick" and "at the top" as an adverb to
"yellow."
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