Prepositional Phrases

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Identify the prepositional phrase: Watch the horse run around the field.

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around the field

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Identify the prepositional phrase: Please return the book to the cabinet.

Back

to the cabinet

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Identify the preposition in: 'Seventy-three years after the Titanic sank, researchers made an exciting discovery.'

Back

after

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Object of the preposition in: 'The researchers found pieces of a ship that had sunk many years previously.'

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ship

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Prepositional phrase in: 'The ship’s scattered wreckage was located more than 12,000 feet beneath the surface.'

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beneath the surface.

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Identify the sentence with a prepositional phrase.

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The researchers found many diamonds and other items of great value.