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Prepsitional Phrase
I want to be a teacher
"to be" is a prepositional phrase or an infininate
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Re: Prepsitional Phrase
A preposition takes a noun as its object. The word be is not a noun. It's a verb; to be is an infinitive verb.
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Re: Prepsitional Phrase

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I want to be a teacher
"to be" is a prepositional phrase or an infininate
'to' is an infinitive marker and not a preposition, if that is what you mean.
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