Conjunctions, Interjections, and Prepositions

Identify the prepositional phrase in the sentence.

Recycling involves the recovery and reforming of paper, glass, and metals.

• Recycling involves

• the recovery

• the recovery and reforming

• of paper, glass, and metals

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Recycling is worth doing in spite of the hassle.

• Recycling is

• is worth doing

• in spite

• in spite AND of the hassle

Identify the prepositional phrase in the sentence.

Newspapers can go to the recycling bin.

• Newspapers can

• go to

• to the

• to the recycling bin

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People should separate recyclable containers into bins.

• People should

• separate recyclable

• containers into bins

• into bins

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In the end, recyclable glass should be separated from the rest of the trash.

• In the end

• recyclable glass

• should be separated from the rest

• in the end,

  from the rest, AND

  of the trash

Identify the type of conjunction that is underlined.

Some animals speed the recycling of minerals by eating plants and other organisms.

• coordinating

• correlative

• subordinating

Identify the type of conjunction that is underlined.

Not only plant eaters but also meat eaters help recycle minerals.

• coordinating

• correlative

• subordinating

Identify the type of conjunction that is underlined.

Although a plant-eater consumes grass and leaves, it absorbs only a small portion of a plant's energy.

• coordinating

• correlative

• subordinating

Identify the type of conjunction that is underlined.

Food passes through an animal's digestive tract, but some is not completely digested.

• coordinating

• correlative

• subordinating

Identify the type of conjunction that is underlined.

An ecosystem also recycles energy when it recycles minerals.

• coordinating

• correlative

• subordinating