Practice Quiz -- Prepositional Phrases

Identify the prepositional phrases.

At 8:00 am, the students will walk into the classroom.

• the students

• will walk

• at 8:00 am

• into the classroom

Identify the prepositions.

The dog hid underneath the couch during the during the thunderstorm.

• hid

• underneath

• the

• during

Identify which sentence uses the bold word as a preposition.

Note: The other sentence uses it as an adverb.

• My cousin from Nigeria is coming to visit

• A cry for help came from within the cave.

Identify which sentence uses the bold word as a preposition.

Note: The other sentence uses it as a conjunction.

• Sebastian made holiday cards for his friends.

• I am going to take a nap, for I am exhausted.

Identify which sentence uses the bold word as a preposition.

Note: The other sentence uses it as an adverb.

• The late students rushed by in a hurry.

• The tree by our school fell down during the storm.

Identify the object of the preposition.

Hemingway wrote his first book on this typewriter.

• typewriter

• his

• first

• Hemingway

Identify the prepositional phrases.

A passenger without a life jacket fell off the boat.

• fell off the boat

• a passenger

• off the boat

• without a life jacket

Identify the prepositions.

The children played inside the shed behind the house.

• behind

• played

• inside

• the

Identify which words are objects of the preposition.

We drove past the house with the purple door.

• house

• door

• we

• past

Identify which sentence uses the bold word as a preposition.

Note: The other sentence uses it as a conjunction.

• After the movie, the credits began to play.

• After I saw it, I wanted to read the book.