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Welcome to the Preposition Party!

Let's get phrasy!🥳

Focus: Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases

First, let's recap!

What is a noun?

We can't forget pronouns!

...but wait, there's more!

Let's talk about verbs.

Multiple Choice

What is a noun?

• a word that describes something

• a type of candy

• a person, place, or thing

• an action word

Poll

What is a verb?

• an action word

• a word that replaces a noun

• a professional songwriter

• a word that describes something

Multiple Choice

What is an adjective?

• a word that describes something

• an action word

• a black kitten creeping in the night

• a person, place, or thing

What is a preposition?

• A preposition is a word that shows a relationship between a noun and another noun, verb, or adjective.

• Prepositions help show us where things are in space and time.

Prepositions of Place

(Location)

Prepositions of Movement

(Direction)

Prepositions of Time

(Time)

Multiple Choice

Identify the preposition.

The cat was in the box.

• cat

• was

• in

• box

Multiple Choice

Identify the preposition.

Becca threw the ball over the fence.

• Becca

• over

• threw

• ball

Prepositional Phrase

We call the noun the object.--------->

Prepositional Phrase Rules

• A preposition always comes first!

• The object (a noun or pronoun) always comes last!

...but why do we need to know this stuff?

• We love details!

• We love description!

Multiple Choice

A prepositional phrase begins with...

• a rocket ship

• a preposition

• an action word

• a noun

Multiple Choice

Prepositional phrases tell us...

• where something is

• when something is happening

• which one of something to choose

• all of these

Multiple Choice

A preposition

• shows location, time or movement of a noun or pronoun

• shows the verb

• is the position of a word

• shows who, what, when, where & why

Multiple Choice

The clock is ______ the table.

• above
• on
• below
• next to

Multiple Choice

Which of the following sentences includes a prepositional phrase?

• Moby is a robot.

• Moby kicked the football.

• Moby kicked the football between the goalposts.

• Moby's team made three points.

Multiple Choice

The book is ............. the pen.

• on

• in

• under

• behind

Multiple Choice

What is the prepositional phrase in the following sentence?

The cat ran under the car.

• the cat

• under the car

• cat ran under

• the car

Multiple Choice

What is the prepositional phrase in the following sentence?

The dog chased the cat up the tree.

• the tree

• the dog chased

• up the tree

• chased the cat

Multiple Choice

What is the prepositional phrase in the following sentence?

Before the game, we should eat dinner.

• before the game

• we should eat dinner

• eat dinner

• before