Question

Select all the words that are part of the prepositional phrase in this sentence. :The elderly woman smiled fondly while straightening the mess from her grandchildren's visit

Answer 1

The prepositions are the words which show the relationship between the pronoun and the nouns. On the other hand, the prepositional phrase starts with the prepositions and end with the object of a preposition, having one or more modifiers to describe.

Therefore, the prepositional phrase in the sentence is 'from her grandchildren's visit'.

The above prepositional phrase acts as a modifier to 'the mess'.

Answer 2

The correct answer should be from her grandchildren's visit

This is a prepositional phrase used to describe what kind of a mess it was. You can recognize it with the preposition from.