Prepositions/Prepositional Phrases

A complete prepositional phrase begins with a preposition and ends with a noun or pronoun.

• True
• False

A good strategy to use when you are trying to identify prepositions in a sentence is to ask ANYWHERE A CAT CAN GO.

• True
• False

Sometimes a sentence will have more than one preposition or prepositional phrase.

• True
• False

Which of the following answer choices is a preposition?
(Read the answer choices very carefully)

• without
• around
• underneath
• All of the answer choices are prepositions.

Identify the preposition in the following sentence:

The United States is between Mexico and Canada.

• Mexico
• is
• between
• and

Tags

CCSS.L.5.1A

Identify the preposition in the following sentence:
We crept into the elevator after class ended.

• crept
• the
• into
• elevator

Identify the preposition in the following sentence:

Please leave your bag and suitcase beside your seat.

• please

• leave

• suitcase

• beside

Tags

CCSS.L.5.1A

Identify the preposition in the following sentence:

The student leaned against his locker because he was waiting patiently.

• waiting
• patiently
• against
• because

Identify the complete prepositional phrase in the following sentence:
We were looking for the documents that were hidden.

• were looking
• for the documents
• for the
• that were hidden

Identify the complete prepositional phrase in the following sentence:
The guard grabbed my friend by the arm, but I karate chopped him.

• by the arm
• by the
• my friend by
• guard grabbed