Prepositions link nouns, pronouns,
and phrases to other words in a sentence (examples: in, of, to, with,
by, for, by, without, inside, etc.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bmz8mM-nPtM
A preposition begins a prepositional phrase.
A prepositional phrase usually has the preposition, an article and maybe one or more adjectives, and a noun.
Examples: in the box over the rainbow at the farm
from my mom behind the old shed on the last train
These nine prepositions do 92% of the work of prepositions: (Memorize them.)at
by
for
from
in
of
on
to
with
Diagramming sentences with prepositional phrases.
And here is a list of commonly used prepositions:
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Prepositions
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aboard
about
above
according to
across
after
against
along
along with
amid
among
around
aside from
as of
at
because of
before
behind
below
beneath
beside
besides
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between
beyond
but (except)
by
down
during
except
for
from
in
in addition to
in front of
inside
in spite of
instead of
into
like
near
next to
of
off
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on
on account of
out
out of
over
past
since
through
throughout
to
toward
under
underneath
until
unto
up
upon
with
within
without
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Important Information
A preposition is always
followed by a noun or pronoun. The noun or pronoun is called the object of the preposition. All together, the preposition, its
object, and the modifiers of the object are called a prepositional phrase.
Can you do this?
Finding Prepositions,
Etc.
In each of the
following sentences,
- place parentheses ( ) around the prepositional phrase.
- underline the subject of the sentence
- Double-underline the simple verb/predicate of the sentence.
Examples: The caterpillar
hung (under Natasha’s nose).
(With a
wiggly mustache,) Natasha enjoyed
the hairy critter.
- Natasha’s friends ran from the big caterpillar.
- Buck is the main character in The Call of the Wild.
- After the new orders for Perrault and Francois, Buck was sold to the drivers of the mail train.
- Thirty days after leaving Dawson, the Salt Water Mail Train arrived at Skagway.
- The team had traveled twelve hundred miles with two days’ rest.
- On the morning of the fourth day, two men from the States bought Buck’s team for a song.1
- Charles was a middle-aged man with weak and watery eyes.
- Hal was a youngster of nineteen or twenty, with a big revolver and a hunting-knife.
- Hal wore his gun and knife on a belt bristling with bullets.
- Charles and Hal had traveled to the Yukon for gold, along with Charles’ wife Mercedes.
1. Buying something “for a song” means they paid a ridiculously low
price.
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