Davis beat his old adversary in the finals 
I became apprehensive as I walked home 
My natural aptitude was remembering lyrics 
Marcus was attentive was the movies played 
Jacob was to be banish from the village 
The town built a barricade to keep out the intruders
        
                    
             
        
        
        
The great literary works of Mesopotamia such as the famous Epic of Gilgamesh were all written in cuneiform.
 
        
             
        
        
        
The prepositional phrase would be "of the state". The word "of" is a preposition.
Examples of other prepositions: before, after, across, within, on, over, under, through, behind
A prepositional phrase has a preposition and a noun/pronoun after it.
        
             
        
        
        
I mean it can be if you're thinking of it as a sociology as it would lead the person to believe that that have a lot of power over everything. Also it can be bad because of taxes