Political motives were often triggered as responses to perceived threats to the security or prestige of the imperial power or its citizens abroad.
The sentence that contained an adjective prepositional phrase is option C. Basketball has several types of defensive strategies. The prepositional phrase in this sentence is "of defensive strategies", and this phrase describes the noun "types". An adjective is used to describe a noun and a pronoun only.
<span>D. We accidentally spilled a whole bottle of vanilla into the batter.
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