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Prepositions & Prepositional Phrases

Prepositions & Prepositional Phrases. Prepositions.

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Prepositions & Prepositional Phrases

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  1. Prepositions & Prepositional Phrases

  2. Prepositions • A preposition is a word which precedes a noun to show the noun’s relationships to another word in the sentences. (The word preposition comes from the idea of being positioned before. It is not true to say that a preposition always precedes a noun, or a pronoun, but it does most of the time.)

  3. Examples of Prepositions • These are the prepositions that you can write: above, about, across, against, along, among, around, at, before, behind, below, beneath, beside, between, beyond, by, down, during, except, for, from, in, inside, into, like, near, of, off, on, since, to, toward, though, under, until, up, upon, with, and withen.

  4. Prepositional Phrase • A prepositional phrase begins with a preposition and ends with a noun or pronoun. • Prepositional phrases can modify nouns, verbs, phrases, and complete clauses. As demonstrated by several of the examples below, prepositional phrases can be embedded inside other prepositional phrases.

  5. Examples of Prepositional Phrases • With spry jingles of the bell on her handlebars, a woman sped by in a crimson smock and a witchy black hat. • Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

  6. Sources • "Prepositional Phrase." About.com Grammar & Composition. N.p., n.d. Web. 17 Oct. 2013. • "Prepositional Phrase." About.com Grammar & Composition. N.p., n.d. Web. 17 Oct. 2013. • "The Free Automatic Bibliography and Citation Generator." EasyBib. N.p., n.d. Web. 17 Oct. 2013.

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