What word is being modified by the prepositional phrase?
The monkeys ran from the sound of humans?
Is it sound?
The prepositional phrase "of humans" modifies "sound."
What about the other prepositional phrase?
We only had to do the one prepositional phrase. What about this one?
The plant on the windowsill thrives in the spring. Does in the spring modify thrives?
Yes.
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The model airplane in my brother's room was made in Germany.
Does in my brother's room describe the airplane?
Yes, in the sentence "The monkeys ran from the sound of humans," the word being modified by the prepositional phrase "of humans" is "sound."
To identify the word being modified by a prepositional phrase, you can follow these steps:
1. Find the prepositional phrase in the sentence. In this case, the prepositional phrase is "of humans," which starts with the preposition "of."
2. Identify the object of the preposition. The object of the preposition is the noun or pronoun that follows the preposition. In this case, "humans" is the object of the preposition "of."
3. Determine the word that the prepositional phrase is describing or modifying. In this sentence, the prepositional phrase "of humans" gives more information about the type or source of the "sound." Therefore, the word being modified by the prepositional phrase is "sound."