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Many animals are ____ danger. at in In the test sentence ‘Many animals are ____ danger.’ the prepositional phrase to refresh is ‘in danger’.Prepositional phrases consist of a preposition and the words which follow it (a complement). The complement is most commonly a noun phrase or pronoun, an adverb phrase, a verb in the -ing form or, a prepositional phrase or a wh-clause. In the test sentence the compliment is the noun ‘danger’ that means ‘the possibility of suffering harm or injury’ (her life was in danger). To specify, ‘in danger’, here, is the subject complement - a word, phrase, or clause that follows a copular, or linking, verb and describes the subject of a clause (here, ‘many animals’). And the prepositional phrase ‘in danger’ functions here as a nominal (The park is next to the hospital.) as it is used in conjunction with the verb form ‘to be’.Prepositional phrases provide important details about the words they modify, such as by answering the following questions: Which one? What kind? How? How much? Where? Why? When? To what extent?In some dictionaries the phrase ‘in danger’ is considered to be an idiom.

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Question	Many animals are ____ danger.
A	by
B	at
C	on
D	in
Answer	d
Remark	In the test sentence ‘Many animals are ____ danger.’ the prepositional phrase to refresh is ‘in danger’.Prepositional phrases consist of a preposition and the words which follow it (a complement). The complement is most commonly a noun phrase or pronoun, an adverb phrase, a verb in the -ing form or, a prepositional phrase or a wh-clause. In the test sentence the compliment is the noun ‘danger’ that means ‘the possibility of suffering harm or injury’ (her life was in danger). To specify, ‘in danger’, here, is the subject complement - a word, phrase, or clause that follows a copular, or linking, verb and describes the subject of a clause (here, ‘many animals’). And the prepositional phrase ‘in danger’ functions here as a nominal (The park is next to the hospital.) as it is used in conjunction with the verb form ‘to be’.Prepositional phrases provide important details about the words they modify, such as by answering the following questions: Which one? What kind? How? How much? Where? Why? When? To what extent?In some dictionaries the phrase ‘in danger’ is considered to be an idiom.

Phrase Prepositional Verb Animals Test Sentence Words Complement