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Prepositions are words that tell how nouns and pronouns relate to other words in a sentence or other parts of a sentence. A phrase is a group of words that does not include a subject and verb Prepositional phrases = prepositions + objects of preposition + other words like adjectives
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Prepositions are words that tell how nouns and pronouns relate to other words in a sentence or other parts of a sentence. A phrase is a group of words that does not include a subject and verb Prepositional phrases = prepositions + objects of preposition + other words like adjectives under the round table Under is the preposition Table is the Object of the preposition Under the round table is the prepositional phrase.
Most prepositions sound like directional words...they tell us where one noun in the sentence is in RELATIONSHIP to another noun in the sentence. Aboard About Above According to Across After Against Along Among Around At Below Beneath Beside Besides Between Beyond But By Concerning Despite Down During Except For From In In front of In spite of Into Like Near Of Off On Over Past Since Through Throughout Till To Toward Under Underneath Until Unto Up Upon With Within With out
Read the following sentences and identify the prepositional phrases in the sentences. Can you find them?
The frog on the lily pad jumped into the rippling river. The frog with the green spots jumped away from the angry elf during a thunderstorm. In his bed, the giant snored like a buzz saw, throughout the night.
Perched on the wooden table the hen clucks and lays golden eggs
The giant slid down the beanstalk
The blackbird and from the tree flew through the castle
the elf alone in the meadow gazed at the moon