PREPOSITIONAL PHRASES

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PREPOSITIONAL PHRASES

• English Departament
• Colegio San Carlos de Quilicura

Miss María Paz Reyes R. and Miss Fabiola
Rodríguez T.
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• A preposition is a word that begins a
  prepositional phrase and shows the relationship
  between its object and another word in the
  sentence. A preposition must always have an
  object.
• A prepositional phrase STARTS with a preposition,
  ends with an object, and may have modifiers
  between the preposition and object of the
  preposition.

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• PREPOSITIONAL PHRASES
• have two parts they begin with a preposition and
  end with a noun, pronoun, gerund, or clause.
• Ex
• Camila, from my class, is terrified.
• Our science teacher at school, Mr Cárdenas, told
  us that ozone is a kind of gas in the atmosphere.
  
• In the meantime, to prevent more damage we should
  ask people to use their cars less.

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• Prepositional phrases function as
• ADJECTIVES OR AS ADVERBS.
• AS AN ADJECTIVE the prepositional phrase will
  answer the question Which one?
• Example
• Camille, from my class, is terrified. (Which
  Camille?)
• ADJECTIVE

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• As an adverb a prepositional phrase will answer
  questions such as How? When? Where?
• Example
• ADVERB
• In the meantime, to prevent more damage, we
  should ask people to use their cars less. (When
  should we ask people?)

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Exercises Pick out the adjective prepositional
phrases in these sentences and tell what they
modify.

• 1. The book on the table in the English classroom
  is Barbara's book.
• 2. The girl in the neighboring house plays the
  flute every night.
• 3. Large blocks of the hardest granite formed the
  walls of the new building.
• 4. The roads of ancient Rome connected the cities
  of the empire. 
• 5. I know that man in the gray suit and the suede
  shoes.
• http//www.dailygrammar.com/Lesson-177-Preposition
  al-Phrases.htm

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Rewrite each of the sentences below, adding a
prepositional phrase from the list.

• 1. The dog sat. _________________________________
  ______
• 2. We danced happily. ___________________________
  ______
• 3. The piece of paper flew. ____________________
  _________
• 4. Liz rode her bicycle. ________________________
  ________

on the roof down the block in the air to the house over the hill under the table across the yard inside the barn out the door
PREPOSITIONAL PHRASES
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II. Write a sentence using the prepositional
phrases below.

• 1. about the book _______________________________
  _____
• 2. over the river _______________________________
  ______
• 3. on Tuesday ___________________________________
  ____
• 4. by the chair __________________________________
  _____
• http//www.k12reader.com/worksheet/add-a-prepositi
  onal-phrase/