Prepositional Phrases

Identify the prepositional phrase in the following sentence. "The Mississippi River flows towards the south."

• The Mississippi River

• River Flows

• flows towards

• towards the south

Identify the prepositional phrase in the following sentence. "Some supplies fell into the water."

• into the water

• fell into

• some supplies

• supplies fell into

Identify the prepositional phrase in the following sentence. "Other boats were parked near the shore."

• Other boats

• near the shore

• were parked

• parked near the shore

Identify the prepositional phrase in the following sentence. "We pulled the oars through the muddy water."

• We pulled

• the oars

• through the muddy water

• oars through

What part of speech is the first word of a prepositional phrase?

• interjection

• conjunction

• preposition

• adverb

Identify the prepositional phrases:

The dog hid underneath the couch during the thunderstorm.

• The dog hid

• underneath the couch

• during the thunderstorm

• There are no prepositional phrases.

Which sentence uses the bold word as a preposition?

• Sebastian made holiday cards for all his friends.

• I am going to take a nap, for I am exhausted.

Mary ran around the corner to meet her friends.

• to meet
• her friends
• ran around
• around the corner

The pencil that fell off the desk was yellow.

• off the desk
• fell off the desk
• was yellow
• pencil that fell

The clock, in my grandma's, house was broken last week.

• broken last week
• grandma's house was
• in my grandma's house
• house was broken