Im having some problems differing between adjective and adverbial preposistional phrases. Can anyone help me?

Question

The students went on a skiing trip. How would I figure this out?

Answer 1

This has to be an adverbial prepositional phrase, because it tells where they went. "The students went" is the backbone of the sentence: "students" is the subject, and "went" is the verb. Where did they go? On a skiing trip.

There are a few good questions to ask when you see a prepositional phrase. If you can answer "when" or "how" then you know it is adverbial, because adverbs are words of time and they tell how something was done. If your phrase is more descriptive, and cannot answer "when" or "how" then it is an adjective.

Hope this helps. Cheers, K (teacher 14 years)

Answer 2

If it answers the questions how, when, or where, it's adverbial. if it answers the questions which one, what kind of, or how many, it's an adjective. Yours answers the question "where" so it's adverbial.

Answer 3

an adjective discribes or modify a noun or pronoun. adverb is to indicate degree,manner circumstance used to modify a very an adjective or anothr adverb.skiing discribes the trip.