I think an adjectival/adverbial prepositional phrase doesn't need an adjective/adverb, but I am not a teacher.Originally Posted by mawes12
What I meant was they act like an adjective/adverb in some cases but you are right that prepositional phrase don't need adjective/adverb, unless the adjective is modifying a noun in the prepositional phrase or an adverb is modifying the prepositional phrase or anything in the clause. Do you understand/agree?
I understand the above but not the following. How can a book shelf mention something?
Not a teacher.
I probably wrote something wrong. To me, "The book above the book shelf" means the book that is above the book shelf so it is showing what book mentions something. Do you understand/agree?
I would agree if you mean 'above the book shelf' is an adjectival prepositional phrase modifying 'the book', but I am not a teacher.
Should it be 'the book in the bookshelf'?
I think both are possible. Yes, I think it is a prepositional adjective phrase.
Last edited by mawes12; 08-Jul-2015 at 14:30.
To Parser, this thread is about preposition's connection with adjective and adverb in case you didn't know.
Last edited by mawes12; 08-Jul-2015 at 16:23.
I don't see "above" as an adverb in "the book above". Even with the restatement, "above" is not an adverb in "which is above". It follows a linking verb.
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I found an example which seems to agree with TheParser's post.
'Above can be used... as an adverb (without a following noun): She stared up at the stars above.'── quoted from http://www.macmillandictionary.com/d.../british/above (boldface in red is mine)
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I would call "above" an adjective there.
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