Expanding Sentences with Prepositional Phrases

A prepositional phrase tells us....

• why or how something happens

• where or when something happens

• who something happens to

• why or when something happens

Which prepositional phrase tells us where?

• in the future

• on Saturday

• after school

• on the board

Which prepositional phrase tells us when?

• after college

• around the garden

• through the woods

• over the fence

What is the prepositional phrase in this sentence: Luke is resting under the umbrella.

• Luke

• is

• resting

• under the umbrella.

Find the prepositional phrase.

Leo can be located in spring.

• can be

• in spring

• be located

• located in

Identify the prepositional phrase in the following sentence: "The cat jumped over the fence."

• The cat jumped

• Jumped over

• Over the fence

• The fence

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Preposition

prepositional phrase

Which of the following prepositional phrases would best complete the sentence that follows:

The tree ___________________________ is a weeping willow.

• that we bought at the nursery

• you killed with the Round Up

• beside the dry creek

• I climbed as a kid

Find the prepositional phrase.

We have done it for 6,000 years.

• We have

• done it

• it for

• for 6,000 years

He rode the bicycle to the grocery store.  What is the red part of the sentence?

• subject

• Coordinating conjunction

• adjective

• Prepositional phrase

Find the prepositional phrase.

Throughout the world, Orion is visible.

• Throughout the world

• the world, Orion

• Orion is

• is visible