A group of two or more related words that do not contain a subject/verb combination is known as a phrase. Phrases are classified into three major types: prepositional, participial, and infinitive.

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What Is a Phrase?

• A group of two or more related words that do not
  contain a subject/verb combination is known as a
  phrase. Phrases are classified into three major
  types prepositional, participial, and
  infinitive.
• Ex Most of the members completed their
  duties before noon.
• Ex That car standing there costs a great deal.
• Ex Our new supervisor asked each person to
  bring a notebook.

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What Is a Prepositional Phrase?

• A prepositional phrase is a group of words
  (usually 3 to 5 words) that begins with a
  preposition.
• Examples
• in a yellow house over the large hill at the
  small pond
• Prepositional phrases typically end with a noun
  or pronoun or a noun phrase (with a determiner
  and an adjective or two, followed by a pronoun or
  noun ).
• The driver spent over ten hours behind the wheel
  of his car.
• In the morning we drove the truck to Los Angeles.

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What Is a Prepositional Phrase?

• The preposition connects its object (the noun or
  pronoun) to some other part of the sentence.
• A whole prepositional phrase takes on a modifying
  role, as an adjective or an adverb.
• So it is usually (1) to locate something in time
  and space,(2) to modify a noun, or (3) to tell
  when or where or under what conditions something
  happened)
• Ex (1) The students in Room 421 cheered.
• EX (2) The girl in red is my sister.
• EX (3) I waited at the corner for an hour.

ADJ
ADJ
ADV
ADV
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Commonly Used Prepositions
about around by in over under
after at during of through upon
against before for on to with
among between from out toward within
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Application 2-1

• Place parentheses around the prepositional
  phrases in these sentences.
• Their family has lived here for many years.
• All of our members paid their dues on time.
• Within a few minutes the plane arrived at the
  gate.

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Application 2-1 (Contd)

• We recognized her voice on the telephone.
• The police directed everyone to the side of the
  street.
• They left under orders from the governor.
• Through the years the society prospered under
  her leadership.
• Her mother looked for them among the trees behind
  the hill.

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Application 2-1 (Contd)

1. Within a few minutes the ground was soaked from
   the rain.
2. President Larson spoke against the measure in the
   afternoon.

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More Exercises

1. The train is due at 1215 p.m.
2. We're having a party on the Fourth of July.
3. It's too cold in winter to run outside.
4. He held his breath for seven minutes.
5. He's worked here since 1970.
6. She lived in Durham in 1999.

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More Exercises (Contd)

• We're moving toward the light.
• The cat with its burning eyes leaped onto the
  window sill and meowed.
• Both of the magical creatures passed through the
  long corridors.
• I can't complete the report
• without the information.

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More Exercises (Contd)

• Who says you can go around the world in eighty
  days?
• The girl from Pampa left her purse
• in the writing lab.
• She was looking for a man with money.
• That picture behind my desk used to
• hang in the bedroom.

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More Exercises (Contd)

• He was mowing the grass around the house.
• Behind the garage I saw a snake, and it really
  scared me.
• Let's talk about good things.
• Peggy has to fight
• against discrimination and justice.

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More to Learn
Prepositional Phrases Writing Assignment
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Thank You