What is the preposition and object of preposition in these sentences?
Despite its hard appearance, the bill of a platypus is soft and very sensitive.
With its bill, the platypus searches muddy river bottoms for worms and insects.
Despite its hard appearance, the bill of a platypus is soft and very sensitive.
With its bill, the platypus searches muddy river bottoms for worms and insects.
2 Answers
of a platypus, for worms and insects.
Explanation:
both of them called
prepositional phrases too.
A group of words called a phrase.
Hope it works.
Prepositions: despite, with
Objects of the prepositional phrases: appearance, bill
Explanation:
The object of a preposition is the noun in a prepositional phrase. A preposition always begins a prepositional phrase.
Despite its hard appearance: despite is the preposition, its is a possessive pronoun/adjective, hard is an adjective describing appearance, appearance is a noun and the object of the preposition
With its bill: with is the preposition, its is a possessive pronoun/adjective, bill is a noun and the object of the preposition