Question

Identify the phrases in the given sentence:
Horses like staying in dark places.

• A. Horses like staying
• B. like staying
• C. Horses like
• D. in dark places.

Answer 1

The correct option is D in dark places.

Prepositional phrases are a group of words containing preposition which lacks either a verb or a subject. Such phrases always have two basic parts: object and preposition. Prepositions are mostly followed by objects.

Using option D will justify all the above rules. 'In dark places' is a prepositional phrase as 'in' is the preposition and 'places' is the object.

Options A, B and C are not prepositional phrases.

Thus, option D is the correct answer.