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The keys are under the blue folder.
8 Prepositional Phrase Examples
Use these examples to study structure, specificity, tone, and variation. They are demonstrations—not claims about a real person or organization unless the example itself makes that explicit.
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What to notice in the examples
Clear prepositional phrases add precise relationships of place, time, direction, method, cause, or association without piling up so many attachments that readers cannot tell what modifies what.
- Identify the preposition and its object.
- Determine which word or action the phrase modifies.
- Keep ambiguous phrases close to the intended target.
- Trim strings of stacked prepositional phrases when a stronger noun or verb can carry the meaning.
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After the meeting, we sent the revised timeline to the client.
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The report with the red cover belongs to the compliance team.
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She solved the issue by comparing the two configuration files.
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Ambiguous: I photographed the statue in the garden with a drone. Revise to show whether the drone photographed it or the statue has a drone.
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The increase in support requests after the release came from a login change.
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Before sunrise, the hikers crossed the bridge over the gorge.
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We selected three examples from the final dataset for manual review.
Keep the underlying decision or pattern, then replace the subject, evidence, relationship, constraints, and tone with details that belong to your situation. If your final line still works after swapping only one noun, it may be too close to the example.