Transcript What Is a Prepositional Phrase?

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.
ADJ
EX (2): The girl in red is my sister.
ADJ
EX (3): I waited at the corner for an hour.
ADV
ADV
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Commonly Used Prepositions
about
around
by
in
over
after
at
during
of
through upon
for
on
to
with
out
toward
within
against before
among
between from
under
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Application 2-1
Place parentheses around the prepositional
phrases in these sentences.
1. Their family has lived here for many years.
2. All of our members paid their dues on time.
3. Within a few minutes the plane arrived
at the gate.
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Application 2-1 (Cont’d)
4. We recognized her voice on the telephone.
5. The police directed everyone to the side
of the street.
6. They left under orders from the governor.
7. Through the years the society prospered
under her leadership.
8. Her mother looked for them among the trees
behind the hill.
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Application 2-1 (Cont’d)
9. Within a few minutes the ground was soaked
from the rain.
10. President Larson spoke against the measure
in the afternoon.
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More Exercises
1. The train is due at 12:15 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 (Cont’d)
7. We're moving toward the light.
8. The cat with its burning eyes leaped
onto the window sill and meowed.
9. Both of the magical creatures passed
through the long corridors.
10. I can't complete the report
without the information.
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More Exercises (Cont’d)
11. Who says you can go around the world
in eighty days?
12. The girl from Pampa left her purse
in the writing lab.
13. She was looking for a man with money.
14. That picture behind my desk used to
hang in the bedroom.
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More Exercises (Cont’d)
13. He was mowing the grass around the house.
14. Behind the garage I saw a snake, and it
really scared me.
17. Let's talk about good things.
18. Peggy has to fight
against discrimination and justice.
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