Please check my conclusion about 'a preposition before prepositional phrase'

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We questioned whether a preposition before another preposition is gramatically correct or not two days ago here.
After that, We've got a lot of answers of how to analysing that structure in many ways. :-)
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We concluded our research about the English grammar

concerning preposition after a preposition.
1. prepositions don't necessarily have to govern noun phrases only.

Some prepositions can also govern a prepositional phrase.

Such prepositions are "from" and "until".
ex) He came to and knocked the burning cigarette end from between his fingers.
ex) This decision will have to wait until after the summer break.
2. First I thought that after the preposition "from", only prepositionalphrases about a place can come. But this is not true.

ex) This decision will have to wait until after the summer break.

ex) Choose your wife from among your relatives.
3. Among the prepositional phrases that are governed by a preposition, theones about place can also be subjects of a verb.
ex) Under the bed is a nice place to hide.
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[nq:1]We questioned whether a preposition before another preposition is gramatically correct or not two days ago here. After that, We've ... a preposition. 1. prepositions don't necessarily have to govern noun phrases only. Some prepositions can also govern a prepositional phrase.[/nq]
Let's stop there. It is very easy to create apparent difficulties or complexities that do not in fact exist by the choice of this or that terminology. A "prepositional phrase" is a phrase introduced by a preposition, but that phrase will always be acting as some part of speech, typically as a noun that is being used as an adjective, which interpretation can itself get tricky owing to whether or not we take the clause's verb to be copulative or not.
Consider "She stood by the window". The "prepositional phrase" by the window might be considered adverbial, acting on "stood", or "stood" might be taken as copulative, in which case the phrase is a predicate adjective (as in "He stood tall").

We need not get further into that question now, interesting as it is; we need only see that the phrase is, for grammatical purposes, a unitary thing, functionally equivalent to a single word, a part of speech. So just as we can say "He came from Chicago", we can say "He came from across the tracks ", where "across the tracks" has the same functional role as the unitary noun "Chicago". "Across the tracks" is one prepositional phrase and "from across the tracks" is another, with the first nested within it.
The base definition of a preposition is simply "a word that connects a noun or pronoun with a verb, adjective, or another noun or pronoun by indicating a relationship between the things for which they stand" (Curme, English Grammar ).
"From" and "until" are not the only prepositions that can lead into other prepositional phrases, just the common ones. "He is now jumping to over five feet."

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