The correct answer is B. It used literary excerpts to illustrate word usage.
Johnson used excerpts from well known books to show how different words are used which was a completely new idea, revolutionary one, since the previous dictionaries showed what the word mean and were sometimes difficult to understand.
First of all, it is important to define preposition phrase in order to find it in this sentence. We can say that "<span>a prepositional phrase will begin with a </span>preposition<span> and will end with a </span>noun<span>, </span>pronoun<span>, </span>gerund<span>, or </span>clause<span>, the "object" of the preposition"
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*In this case, we find UNTIL TODAY as the only prepositional phrase presented. until is the preposition and today is the noun.
John and Julian’s house seem quite welcoming seems to be more correct!