Phrases
Prepositions
Name _______________Class Period ____
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My friend Mary sings in the opera
house.
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My friend Mary sings near the opera
house
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My friend Mary sings outside the opera
house
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My friend Mary sings behind the opera
house
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In 1996 Woodstock Middle School was
built.
(Short phrase)
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In response to the many requests of our
customers, we are building a donut
store.
(Long phrase)
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In my opinion, Mr. Smith was a great
math teacher. (Independent
comment)
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In addition, a six percent school tax
must be issued to build a new school.
(Transitional expression)
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The opera will be performed on a large
OP
stage.
between a noun or a pronoun and another
word in the sentence.
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Different prepositions convey different
meanings.
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Punctuation
A preposition is a word that shows a relationship
As general rule, use
a comma after all
introductory prepositional phrases.
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A comma may
be omitted after a short
prepositional phrase
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In a sentence a preposition
is always followed by
Prepositions and
prepositional phrases
a word called the object of a preposition.
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A preposition followed by more
has a compound
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A preposition,
than one object
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OP
OP
Between City Hall and the library is the
opera house.
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OP
Cathy sang the high note with ease.
object of a preposition
its object or objects, and any
modifiers form a prepositional phrase.
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A phrase is a group
of words that functions
OP
OP
At the end of the opera, people in the
OP
audience cheered.
as a single word.
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Many sentences have
more than one prepositional
phrase.
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Prepositions and
prepositional
phrases
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Prepositions and prepositional phrases
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You may have noticed that many prepositions are words
that can
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We went inside the opera house.
(preposition or adverb) Inside what?
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We went inside.
(preposition or adverb) Inside what?
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The students ran in the rain.
The students ran inside.
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Go to the beach near the road.
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One of the teachers from Woodstock
Middle School will be there.
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We went on the best fieldtrip.
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They met us later on the riverboat.
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The lone runner jogged steadily on the
hot track.
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For years the 6C teachers worked hard
during preplanning.
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A man rescued a dog in a hat.
function as adverbs.
(Adverbs tell how, when, where, and to what extent
something is or was done.)
Remember that a preposition
always has an
object.
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An adverb
does not have an object.
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Prepositional phrases always act as modifiers.
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A prepositional phrase that modifies a noun or pronoun
is an adjective.
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An adjective phrase tells
which, what kind, or
how many.
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A prepositional phrase that modifies a verb, and
adjective, or an adverb is an adverb phrase.
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An adverb
phrase tells how, when, where,
or to what extent.
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You may use prepositional phrases either
before or
(Clear or unclear)
after the words they modify as long as the meaning
of the sentence is clear.
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A man in a hat rescued a dog.
(Clear or unclear)
To be clear, you should always place an adjective
phrase next to the word it modifies.
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Place an adverb phrase as
close as possible
to the word or words it modifies, or
place it at the beginning or end of the sentence.
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Words commonly used as prepositions
About
Above
Across
After
Against
Along
Among
Around
At
Before
Behind
Below
Beneath
Beside
Besides
Between
Beyond
But
By
Concerning
Despite
Down
During
Except
Excepting
For
From
In
Inside
Into
Like
Near
Of
Off
On
Onto
Out
Outside
Over
Past
Regarding
Round
Since
Through
Through
Till
To
Toward
Under
Underneath
Until
Up
Upon
With
Within
Without
Prepositional phrases
According to
Along with
Apart from
As for
As regards
As to
Because of
By means of
By reason of
By the way
Due to
Except for
Incase of
In case of
In front of
In lieu of
In place of
In regard to
In spite of
Instead of
On account of
Out of
Up to
With reference to
With regard to
With respect to
With the exception
of
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