The prepositional phrase is common. It starts with a preposition and ends with a noun or pronoun and modifies some other word in the sentence.

Prepositions: over, under, around, into, by , near etc.

Phrase: over the lake.

Sentence with phrase: The boy jumped over the lake. It is an adverb phrase because it modifies the verb jumped. It helps explain something about jumped.

The laptop computer I bought was a “plug and play” solution, meaning I didn’t need to install any hardware or software to get started.

Other common phrases you might consider:

“out of the box”

“nip and tuck”

“best of the bunch”

You get the idea, right?