What are the components of the prepositional phrase after the predicate? What is the function?

1. Answer: The original sentence is indeed a cardinality table structure, the predicative core word is a noun process, followed by two prepositional phrases. One prepositional phrase is making connections, which is the postattribute of the process, and the other prepositional phrase is in the brain, which is the locative adverbial of this sentence.

2. Grammatical knowledge: Adverbials are used to modify verbs, adjectives, adverbs or the whole sentence. There are many elements in English that can act as adverbials, including individual words, phrases and, of course, sentences. These components mainly include adverbs, prepositional phrases, infinitive phrases, participles (phrases), adjectives, phrases, compound structures and clauses. Generally speaking, adverbials represented by adverbs are often used to explain time, place, behavior, degree or other aspects. Preposition phrases are often used as adverbials, which can indicate time, place, way or other aspects. Please look at the following example.

3. Typical example:

We stayed up until midnight. We stayed up late into the night. (adverbial of time)

He was born in 1958 Qingdao. 1958 was born in Qingdao. (adverbial of place)

To our surprise, she criticized him instead of practicing him. To our surprise, she criticized him instead of praising him. (Other aspects)

We learn to swim by swimming. We learn to swim by swimming. (adverbial of manner)