Prepositional Phrases as Adjectives and Adverbs

A group of words that may take the place of a part of speech is called a phrase. In an earlier lesson, I explained the seven types of phrases, but in this lesson, I expand on the prepositional phrase.
The prepositional phrase is a multifunctional phrase because depending on its place in the sentence, it can either work as an adjective or as an adverb.
Prepositional phrases may be embedded into larger phrases or even clauses.
There is also a bonus quiz in this lesson so that you may show what you know!
To review the Seven Types of Phrases click here: • Types of Phrases | 7 T...

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I have two questions. First, in the sentence, “ I’ll give you a call in the morning,” how can we know that the prepositional phrase is not modifying you or call? It seems like a rather large jump to have the referent and a prepositional phrase be “ give in the morning.” it seems so much more logical that the prepositional phrase would modify “call.” What am I not understanding here?
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Hey thanks for the lesson. I have a question. In a sentence such as 'I am scared of ghosts' of ghosts is my prep phrase but what is it modifying? Scared, which in this case seems to be an adjective or the verb is? Also, If it is indeed acting as an adverb , what question does it answer - how, when, where, why, in what manner, frequency?

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So how would you call a prepositional phrase that acts as an adjective? Prepositional phrase, adjectival phrase or adjectival prepositional phrase?

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" over the clouds flew a majestic eagle " where is the subject if we considered "over the clouds"as an adverb. Is it an expletive? That's maybe why you considered it as that because the real subject is " majestic eagle" am I right or wrong pls answer me asap

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