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What word is being modified by the underlined phrase in the following sentence? Is the jacket on the couch yours or mine? On the couch is underlined.

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Is the jacket on the couch yours or mine?

The word modified by on the couch is jacket.

On the couch is a prepositional phrase. A prepositional phrase is a phrase that starts with a preposition, in this case ON, and shows where an object is located, COUCH.

Where is the jacket? ON THE COUCH.

Prepositional phrase is composed of a preposition plus an optional modifier plus a noun or a pronoun or a gerund.

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