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WorksheetsPrepositional Phrases--Purposes
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 30mins
What are these prepositional phrases telling you? (For example, are these prepositional phrases telling you where something is -- location, or how to go somewhere -- direction, or when an event starts/started -- time?)
1. on top of the table
2. underneath the dog
3. around here somewhere
location
time
direction
What are these prepositional phrases telling you? (For example, are these prepositional phrases telling you what an article is about -- topic, or where something is -- location, or how to go somewhere -- direction?)
1. about misinformation
2. on the subject of social media
topic
location
direction
What are these prepositional phrases telling you?
1. from Bob Smith
2. according to the writer
sources of information
topic of a lecture
location of a lecture
What are these prepositional phrases telling you?
1. for 30 minutes at least
2. during the last century (100 years)
3. from Thursday to Sunday
duration of an event
exact time event started
location of an event
Identify the prepositional phrases in this sentence:
Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg must face Congress next week to talk about leaked documents.
next week
about leaked documents
next
leaked documents
Identify the prepositional phrases in this sentence:
Facebook has users all around the world and on the International Space Station.
around the world
on the International Space Station
around
has users
What are these prepositional phrases doing?
1. on an online message board
2. in a text message
3. at the top of the page
location of information
topic of information
date of information
Identify the prepositional phrases in these sentences:
Frances Haugen worked for Facebook years ago. She spoke to Congress about Facebook's lack of effort to stop its bad practices.
worked for
for Facebook
years ago
of effort
There are no prepositional phrases.
Identify the prepositional phrases in these sentences:
Currently, there are few laws that control social media. However, law makers are learning that regulations are needed to protect people. (*Remember that "to + verb" is not a prepositional phrase.)
there are
that control social media
are learning
There are no prepositional phrases.
Identify the prepositional phrases in this sentence:
Fake news is available to us every minute of every day.
Fake news
to us
of every day
every minute of every day
