Prepositional phrases are generally used as complements; not objects.

介词短语通常用作补语; 不用作宾语。

Let's start with common prepositional phrases.

让们常见的介词短语开始。

The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language calls these " prepositional modifiers" .

剑桥英语语法称这些为" 介词修饰语" 。

Other grammatical forms can be subjects too, like noun clauses and prepositional phrases.

其他语法可以做主语，比如名词句和介词短语。

I'm adding a prepositional phrase as a complement to my independent clause.

在添加一个介词短语作为的独立条款的补充。

You will learn about sentence patterns, adjectives, and adjectival prepositional phrases.

你将学习句型、容词和容词介词短语。

Daughter-in-law. This compound noun is made of a noun and a prepositional phrase.

Daughter-in-law。该复合名词由名词和介词短语组成。

The two most common adverbial structures you will find are adverbs and prepositional phrases.

最常见的两种状语结构是副词和介词短语。

We often use a prepositional phrase starting with " on" to tell who is suffering the harm.

们经常使用以“on”开头的介词短语来表示谁受到了伤害。

In intransitive verb patterns, adverbs or prepositional phrases are often referred to as " optional."

在不及物动词句型中，副词或介词短语通常是 “可有可无的”。

But in the second part of the sentence, we don't use a reflexive pronoun in the prepositional phrase.

但是在句子的第二部分，们没有在介词词组中使用反身代词。

In this case, an adverbial structure, a prepositional phrase, tells about the location of the subject, " my sister."

在这个例子中，一个状语结构——介词短语，说明了主语“妹妹”的位置。

Sometimes English speakers replace an adjective with a kind of phrase known as an adjectival prepositional phrase.

有时说英语的人会用容词介词短语代替容词。

Instead of a prepositional phrase, " In my birthday, " we can just start the sentence with " No one."

们可以用“No one”来代替介词短语“In my birthday”。

" Despite the fact" is a prepositional phrase.

“尽管事实”是一个介词短语。

Now let's look at advanced prepositional phrases.

现在让们看看高级介词短语。

Now, these are known as passive prepositional verbs.

现在， 这些被称为被动介词动词。

Or you could give even more information by adding a prepositional phrase: We laughed at the man's silly jokes.

你还可以通过添加介词短语，给出更多信息，比如：们听了那个男人的愚蠢笑话后笑了。

Try to make some more sentences with either the verbs, prepositional phrases, or the nouns that we talked about today.

试着用们今天讲过的动词、介词短语或名词多造一些句子。

Thanks for clicking and welcome to this lesson on 10 useful prepositional phrases.

感谢您点击，欢迎来到这节关于 10 个有用的介词短语的课程。