Home Preparation. 1  On the day of the test, your child should not eat or drink anything before the test is done. 2  Newborns to infants 4 weeks old should not take food or drink by mouth for 2 hours before the test. 3  Young children between the ages of 1 month to 24 months should not have anything by mouth for 4 hours before the test.
An adverbial phrase is a prepositional phrase that modifies a verb, an adjective, or an adverb. 1  The manager with the pink slips terrorized the employees. 2  The adjectival phrase âwith the pink slipsâ describes the noun âmanager.â. 3  The price of the promotion was much too steep.
At the minimum, a prepositional phrase will begin with a preposition and end with a noun, pronoun, gerund, or clause, the object of the preposition. The object of the preposition will often have one or more modifiers to describe it. These are the patterns for a prepositional phrase: Preposition + Noun, Pronoun, Gerund, or Clause Preposition + Modifier(s) + Noun, Pronoun, Gerund, or Clause Here are some examples of the most basic prepositional phrase: At home At = preposition; home = noun. In time In = preposition; time = noun.