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"English Question II: Revenge of Sentence Structure"

I'm still doing an English Language essay, still faffling it up, and still in need of your help.

In the sentence:

"In a bit of coal"

The elements are:

the preposition “in”,
the indefinite article “a”
the noun "bit"
The preposition "of"
the noun "coal"

Two questions:
Would 'coal' be the head noun, because the 'bit' is of the coal, of would "bit" be the head noun, because coal is just the description of what the bit is of?

Also, as there are two prepositions, does that mean that there are four sentence elements, or five?



Thanks for your help, and witful slander of my poor grasp of English.

Surely it's Play-D'oh

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