Prepositional phrases are generally used as complements; not objects.

介词语通常用作补语; 不用作宾语。

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" 。

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语组成。

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

其他语法形式也可以做主语，比如名词从句和介词语。

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

我正在添加一个介词语作为我的独立条款的补。

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

你将学习句型、形容词和形容词介词语。

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语。

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形容词介词语代替形容词。

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，我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——介词语，说明了主语“我妹妹”的位置。

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

在不及物动词句型中，副词或介词语通常是 “可有可无的”。

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

我们经常使用以“on”开头的介词语来表示谁受到了伤害。

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

我们可以用“No one”来代替介词语“In my birthday”。

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

试着用我们今天讲过的动词、介词语或名词多造一些句子。

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语，给出更多信息，比如：我们听了那个男人的愚蠢笑话后笑了。

Let's start with common prepositional phrases.

让我们从常见的介词语开始。

Remember, you should not use Angelou's exact words; rather, you should choose your own noun phrases, intransitive verbs, and prepositional phrases.

请记住，不要用玛雅·安吉洛的原话，而是要选择新的名词语、不及物动词和介词语。

Now let's look at advanced prepositional phrases.

现在让我们来看看高级介词语。

Now, these are known as passive prepositional verbs.

现在， 这些被称为被动介词动词。

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

感谢点击，欢迎来到这节关于10个实用介词语的课程。