What is/are the preposition(s) of the following sentence?: The constant talking from the audience members next to us was very rude and almost ruined the movie.

1 Answer
Mar 6, 2018

There are two propositions in the sentence:
1) "from"
2) "to"

Explanation:

The constant talking [ color(red)("from")  the  audience  members ]
next  [ color(red) " to" us ] was very rude and almost ruined the movie.

There are two prepositions in this sentence

1) from
2) to

They each form part of a prepositional phrase with a noun (or a pronoun in the "object" case) as the object of the preposition

1) ""from the audience members"" is the entire prepositional phrase,
with the noun "members" as the object of the proposition ""from"."

2) ""to us"" is the entire prepositional phrase,
with the pronoun "us" as the object of the preposition ""to"".

Here's a list of the 49 prepositions
enter image source here
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/5-word-class-learning-mats-6420993