Prepositions of Time

This video gives guidelines regarding which prepositions to use with time: in, or, at, for, since, until, by, or during.

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[@shuhaibgurukkal5302]

Thank you… Ma’am, I know that starting a sentence with a preposition is possible, but don’t know the rules. “ With the grip of the pandemic loosening partially, domestic golf events are set to resume next month” In the above news report, Is the part before the comma a prepositional phrase or adverbial phrase?😕😕

[@JeanietheEnglishTeacher]

First of all, let me clarify that a prepositional phrase is one type of an adverbial phrase, so I think you want to ask about the distinction between a prepositional phrase and an adverb clause. Prepositional phrases are prepositions followed by noun phrases, and adverb clauses are adverbs followed by a subject + verb. "With" is almost always a preposition, so the example above is a prepositional phrase. "Loosening" is a gerund (which is a noun form), not a progressive verb (you can watch my video on the 5 Forms of a Verb to get more information about that difference). Compare these examples: "After loosening restrictions, the administration was heavily criticized." "After they loosened restrictions, the administration was heavily criticized." Can you see the different structures of a noun phrase in the first one, and a subject + verb in the second?

[@shuhaibgurukkal5302]

@@JeanietheEnglishTeacher Thank you so much ma’am…now it’s clear.