Learn English – How to distinguish between positions of prepositional phrases

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Is there a name for where prepositional phrases are in a sentence? For example, is there a name to distinguish between the following sentences?

There has not been a queen on the island.
On the island, there has not been a queen.

Best Answer

One difference between your sentences is that one has an introductory modifier (where the prepositional phrase is in the beginning), and the other does not. This site writes:

A prepositional phrase at the beginning of a sentence constitutes an introductory modifier, which is usually a signal for a comma. However, unless an introductory prepositional phrase is unusually long, we seldom need to follow it with a comma.

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