Identifying Prepositions

What is a preposition?

• A word used to describe something
• A word used to explain a noun.
• A word that describes where and/or when something is.
• An action word.

Find the preposition:
Before dinner, Landen went to the store.

• dinner
• went
• before
• store

Find the preposition:
Isaiah sat on his new bike.

• sat
• on
• his
• new

Find the preposition:
Under a shady tree, Joseph rested.

• shady
• tree
• under
• rested

Find the preposition:
Grace held the leash around her wrist.

• held
• leash
• around
• wrist

Find the preposition:
Juan stayed focused during his reading.

• stayed
• reading
• his
• during

Find the preposition:
The dog sat near Alaina.

• sat
• near
• dog
• the

Find the preposition:
Jessica left before lunchtime.

• before
• left
• lunchtime
• Jessica

Find the preposition:
Carmela wandered into the park.

• wandered
• the
• park
• into

Find the preposition:
Riley walked across the street.

• RIley
• across
• street
• walked