Year 7 Prepositions Test

What is a preposition? Select the best definition.

• A preposition replaces noun in a sentence.

• A preposition names a person, creature, place, thing, feeling, quality or idea in a sentence.

• A preposition sits before a noun (or a pronoun) to show the noun's (or pronouns's) relationship to another word in the sentence

• A preposition begins a phrase that adds meaning to a verb.

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CCSS.L.1.1G

CCSS.L.3.1H

CCSS.L.5.1A

CCSS.L.5.1E

A preposition can consist of more than one word:

• True

• False

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CCSS.L.1.1I

CCSS.L.4.1E

CCSS.L.5.1A

CCSS.L.K.1E

Which list contains only prepositions?

• five, red, sweet, angry

• yesterday, frequently, here, cup

• good, boring, worse, nice

• above, under, towards, outside

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CCSS.L.1.1I

CCSS.L.4.1E

CCSS.L.5.1A

CCSS.L.K.1E

What is a prepositional phrase?

• the combination of a preposition and its object

• the joining of a preposition and a phrase

• the joining of a preposition and its subject

• the combination of a preposition and a verb

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CCSS.L.4.1E

CCSS.L.7.1A

CCSS.L.9-10.1B

Select the word that cannot function as a preposition.

• beside

• around

• smooth

• opposite

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CCSS.L.1.1I

CCSS.L.4.1E

CCSS.L.5.1A

CCSS.L.K.1E

What do prepositions tell us?

• when, where and how something happens

• why, where and how something happens

• who, what and when something happens

• what, where and why something happens

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CCSS.L.1.1I

CCSS.L.4.1E

CCSS.L.5.1A

CCSS.L.K.1E

To find the object of a preposition, what should you ask?

• You should ask who, what, where or when after the preposition.

• You should ask how? Or what? after the preposition.

• You should ask when? Or why? before the preposition.

• You should ask who? Or why? before the preposition.

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CCSS.L.3.1A

Which sentence contains two prepositional phrases?

• The holidays are coming soon so get ready for fun.

• Make sure you get milk and bread on the way home.

• Jeff and Anil loved the movie they saw last night.

• We arrived at the police station before three o’clock.

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CCSS.L.4.1E

CCSS.L.7.1A

CCSS.L.9-10.1B

Which group contains only prepositions?

• since, towards, these, through

• behind, underneath, silent, into

• during, opposite, beneath, without

• until, begins, inside, below

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CCSS.L.1.1I

CCSS.L.4.1E

CCSS.L.5.1A

CCSS.L.K.1E

Which statement about prepositions is true?

• Prepositions show how objects and places are linked in common sentences.

• Prepositions indicate the actions and feelings of people and creatures.

• Prepositions indicate the ways in which words relate to the verb and the adverb.

• Prepositions indicate how people and things are related in time and space.

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CCSS.L.1.1G

CCSS.L.3.1H

CCSS.L.5.1A

CCSS.L.5.1E