Question on Foundations of Verbal

[adam.f]

In Question 5 of Drill 4.4 on page 69 of Foundations of Verbal, the answer identifies "as an Islamic mortgage" as a prepositional phrase but does not identify "as he or she accumulates ownership" as a prepositional phrase.

Could someone please let me know if this is an error or otherwise please explain why one is a prepositional phrase and the other is not? Thanks!

- Adam

[adam.f]

Never mind. I read the section on subordinating conjunctions and answered my own question. "As he or she accumulates ownership" is a subordinate clause rather than a preposition because "He or she accumulates ownership" could be its own sentence.

[RonPurewal]

Never mind. I ... answered my own question.

Good.

By the way, don't waste your time memorizing these terms. I don't know any of them myself -- and I won't ever need to.

The only possible utility of knowing these terms is that they might help you google additional examples of the constructions you're looking at. Beyond that, at best they're deadweight, and at worst they'll interfere with your understanding.