When Lincoln says, "Now we are engaged in a great civil war," the phrase "in a great civil war" is...

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an infinitive phrase.
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an appositive phrase.
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a gerund phrase.
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a prepositional phrase.
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The phrase "in a great civil war" is a prepositional phrase. It begins with the preposition "in" and includes the noun "war" along with its modifiers.