Is the jacket <u>on the couch</u> yours or mine?
The word modified by <u>on the couch</u> is jacket.
On the couch is a prepositional phrase. A prepositional phrase is a phrase that starts with a preposition, in this case ON, and shows where an object is located, COUCH.
Where is the jacket? ON THE COUCH.
Prepositional phrase is composed of a preposition plus an optional modifier plus a noun or a pronoun or a gerund.
The denotative definition of a word is its literal meaning. This would be the meaning one would find in the dictionary.
By contrast, the connotative definition is the meaning associated with the word. It is the implied meaning of the word.
For example, the words in bold have the same denotation but different connotations:
-- a beautiful woman
-- a handsome woman
-- a pretty woman
While all these words mean the same thing, they do not have the same associations.
Yes ! movies because we want ourself to entertain
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