Question

What is the preposition and object of preposition in these sentences?

Despite its hard appearance, the bill of a platypus is soft and very sensitive.

With its bill, the platypus searches muddy river bottoms for worms and insects.

Answer 1

of a platypus, for worms and insects.

Explanation:

both of them called
prepositional phrases too.
A group of words called a phrase.

Hope it works.

Answer 2

Prepositions: despite, with
Objects of the prepositional phrases: appearance, bill

Explanation:

The object of a preposition is the noun in a prepositional phrase. A preposition always begins a prepositional phrase.

Despite its hard appearance: despite is the preposition, its is a possessive pronoun/adjective, hard is an adjective describing appearance, appearance is a noun and the object of the preposition

With its bill: with is the preposition, its is a possessive pronoun/adjective, bill is a noun and the object of the preposition