Question

Identify the underlined phrase in each sentence.

The coach made the players pick up all the tennis balls on and _outside the fields. _

Answer 1

The correct answer is: prepositional phrase. The underlined phrase "outside the fields" begins with the proposition "outside" followed by the noun phrase "the fields", which is the object of the preposition. Since these two components modify a noun (tennis balls), "outside the fields" is an adjectival prepositional phrase that describes the location of the tennis balls.