PREPOSITIONS

He is sitting beside the girl. What is a preposition? *A preposition shows how a noun or a pronoun relates to another word in a sentence. He is sitting beside the girl.

Shows location or timing The girl went into the house. He laughed during the show.

Most commonly used prepositions: with in at by to for of from on

The store closes at midnight. We just got home from the mall. Examples of sentences with Prepositions: The store closes at midnight. We just got home from the mall. Shelia is going to Wal-Mart.

Commonly used prepositions: Before Behind Below Beneath Beside Between Beyond But(Except) By Down During For From In Inside Into Like Near Of Off On Onto Out Outside Over Past Through To Toward Under Underneath Until Up Upon With Without About Above Across After Against Along Among Around At

Noun/pronoun that follows the preposition What is the object of a preposition? Noun/pronoun that follows the preposition He drove to the store. The dancers arrived before lunch. Walk across the street and into the store. He looked under the table and near the porch.

Identify the preposition in each of the following sentences. She walked to the window. The books are on the table. The juice is on the table near the canned fruit. What would you like with your cereal? We live behind a grove of trees.

Write three prepositions that could complete each sentence. They waited _________ the phone. She threw a rock ________ the creek. The address was ________ the door. The book ______ the table is mine. Put them ______ the basket.

Circle the preposition and underline the object. The children are under the bench. We rented a cabin at Lost lake, near the Peaks of Otter. We traveled through a long tunnel. The mountains sloped toward the ocean. The speaker talked for two long hours.

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What is a prepositional phrase? *A group of words that begin with a preposition and end with a noun(s) or pronoun(s)/object EX: The Pueblo people live in the Southwest. *Prepositional Phrase-in the Southwest. *Object of Prepositional Phrase: Southwest

II. Sometimes, sentences will contain more than one prepositional phrase. The ancestors of the Pueblos, the Anasazi, made their home in high cliffs.

III. Compound Objects More than one object (noun, pronoun) following the preposition They settled in New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, and Colorado.

How can you make your writing smoother? *By reducing a sentence to a prepositional phrase and combining it with another sentence. EX: The Pueblos later built more elaborate homes. They built them of stone and adobe. NEW SENTENCE: The Pueblos later built more elaborate homes of stone and adobe.

Identify the prepositional phrase and circle the object. Imagine a huge forest growing in a hot, steamy environment. In a tropical rainforest, the tallest trees rise nearly two hundred feet above the ground. Direct sunlight reaches only the highest of their branches. Only dim light filters through the leaves to the ground. Thunderstorms occur often throughout the year. However, few raindrops fall directly to the ground.

Water drips down tree trunks or falls from leaves. The place teems with wildlife. Many animals spend their entire lives in the trees. Frogs, toads, lizards, and snakes dwell among the branches.

The cave was a large, dark place. It was hidden in the mountains. Combine the following sentences by reducing one sentence to a prepositional phrase and combining it with the other sentence. The sixth grade hall is very crowded. It was filled with lots of students going different places. The cave was a large, dark place. It was hidden in the mountains. 3) At the heart of the community was a kiva. It was used for meetings and ceremonies. 4) I love to go to the movies. I love going to the movies with friends.