Understanding Prepositional Phrases and Their Uses

What is a prepositional phrase?

• Prepositional phrases function to modify or describe nouns, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, and verbs providing context related to time, place, manner, or reason

• 1. a word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence, and forming the main part of the predicate of a sentence, such as hear, become, happen.

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• a word used to identify any of a class of people, places, or things.

What is an example of the preposition used for PLACE

• Before

• at

• on

• during

What is a preposition that describes TIME

• under

• over

• during

• about

The coffee on the table is mine.

• Adverbial Prepositional Phrase

• Adjectival Prepositional Phrase

• Noun Phrase

• Verb Phrase

She swims with great speed.

• Adverbial Prepositional Phrase

• Adjectival Prepositional Phrase

• Complex Sentence

• Irregular Verb

Put the book ______ the table.

These phrases modify nouns/pronouns by providing more information about them.

• Adverbial Prepositional Phrase

• Adjectival Prepositional Phrase

She left for London _______ Sunday _______ 3:00 p.m.

• at

• on

• in

Tags

CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.L.6.4D

CCSS.RI.6.4

Jane arrived ... school ... 8 o'clock.

• in, at

• to, in

• at, at

• to, at

Tags

CCSS.L.7.3A

CCSS.L.7.4A

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