Answer:The answer would be: Cinderella would have continue to live a miserable life.
Even without prince trying the slipper the prince still would have never noticed Cinderella’s sisters. Prince is still a prince he can’t be impoverished. Cinderella is too shy to ask her stepmother for anything. Even if she did, the stepmother would have never complied.
The answer is: [C]: <span>a preposition followed by a noun, pronoun, or phrase.
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Note: Answer choice "A" is incorrect.
A 'prepositional phrase' ALWAYS begins with a preposition.
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Answer choice "B" is incorrect. A 'prepositional phrase' does, in fact, always, start with a preposition, but does not HAVE to be followed by ONLY a [noun or pronoun].
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I believe it's detail, but double check in-case I'm wrong.