Noun with prepositions

Here it refers to the noun of the prepositional phrase the Consumer act.

But trick is to remember that A prepositional phrase WILL NEVER CONTAIN THE MAIN SUBJECT OF A SENTENCE.

Meaning,

Neither of these cookbooks contains the recipe for Manhattan-style squid eyeball stew.

the verb contains is associated with Neither which is a singular.
However of these cookbooks is a prepositional phrase where cookbooks is a noun.A plural one.
So,associating contains with cookbooks will cause a SV error.

pnw5851 wrote:The Consumer Act in 1999, which allows consumers to......


I know that "which" should modify the noun right next to it. - not always. The usage is dependent on the meaning of the sentence and the context in which it is used.

But what if it is a prepositional phrase like the one above?

Thanks!

In this case it refers to the "The Consumer Act in 1999"

Please refer these posts :

https://www.beatthegmat.com/appositive-v ... tml#417272

and Ron's explanation to it : https://www.manhattangmat.com/forums/pos ... tml#p31162