Standard Four Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases

A preposition ____________________________.

• names a person, place or thing

• shows great expression

• shows the relationship between the subject of a sentence and another object

• is an action or state of being

Which is a list of common prepositions?

• around, at, down, of, to

• first,second,third,fourth

• am,is,are ,was, were

• me, you, your mamma, my cousin

What is the preposition in this sentence?

Singing is fun during the holidays.

• is

• singing

• during

• holidays

What is the preposition in this sentence? Students must stay inside the classroom.

• students

• must

• stay

• inside

Which is a list of common prepositions?

• red,orange, yellow, green, blue

• him, her, his, she, they

• shoe, pants, skirt, blouse, shirt

• above, before, during, off, toward

What is the preposition in this sentence?

Over the years we have learned to study hard.

• over

• years

• have

• to

Identify the prepositional phrase in the following sentence: My cat jumped on my bed and woke me up.

• on my bed

• my cat jumped

• woke me up

• bed and woke

Identify the prepositional phrase in the following sentence:

The chairs were placed upon the desks.

• the chairs were placed

• were placed

• the chairs

• upon the desks

Which is a list of common prepositions?

• plus, minus, subtract, add, divide

• across, behind, for, on, under

• compare, contrast, support, detail, explain

• who, what, when, where, why, how

Identify the preposition in the following sentence:

The bird flew into the window but was okay.

• bird

• flew

• into

• okay