Quotes About Prepositional phrases

Four times you drive around the block, the Porsche weaving in and out of the rain-slowed traffic like the essence of a Henry James sentence weaving in and out of prepositional phrases, dependent clauses, and parenthetical asides (periodically hitting the brakes to avoid misplacing a modifier).

Similarly, although we use prepositional phrases when we write, we apparently don't write more effectively when we can label our language in these ways.