allerySyntactically, English prepositional phrases branch in which direction?
ARight-branching
BLeft-branching
CNon-branching
DDual-branching
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: A. Right-branching
Prepositional phrases are head-initial and therefore right-branching syntactically.
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