Prepositions
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- Q1What are prepositions?Words that relate nouns or pronouns to other words in a sentence and that show relation in space, time, location, or distanceWords that describe nouns or pronounsWords that relate verbs, adjectives, and adverbs to other words in a sentencePeople, places, and things30sEditDelete
- Q2What is a prepositional phrase?A group of words that begins with a preposition and ends with a verbAny group of words that contains a prepositionA group of words that begins with a preposition and ends with a noun or pronounA group of words that begins with a noun or pronoun and ends with a preposition30sEditDelete
- Q3What is the noun or pronoun at the end of the prepositional phrase called?the object of the prepositionprepositional pronounnoun or pronoun of the prepositionprepositional noun30sEditDelete
- Q4Identify the prepositional phrase in the sentence: She wandered in the garden.she wanderedwandered inin the gardenwandered in the garden30sEditDelete
- Q5Choose the list of prepositions:through, two, your, I, givethrough, run, hover, into, fourthough, however, inside, relax, twothrough, under, in, for, to30sEditDelete
- Q6What is the difference between a phrase and a clause?You can have prepositional clauses but not phrasesPhrases have subjects and verbs, while clauses do notClauses have subjects and verbs, while phrases do notPhrases are always prepositional, but clauses are not30sEditDelete
- Q7Is this a phrase or a clause: above the microwaveclausephrase30sEditDelete
- Q8Identify the preposition and the object of the preposition: She ate candy while hiding in the bathroom.prep- in ; object of prep- theprep- in ; object of prep- candyprep- in ; object of prep- bathroomprep- while ; object of prep- hiding30sEditDelete
- Q9Identify the preposition: Somewhere over the rainbow, bluebirds fly.rainbowoverflysomewhere30sEditDelete
- Q10Identify the object of the preposition: She wrote on her paper that she was happy.paperhappywasher30sEditDelete
- Q11What preposition would go in the blank: She ran ______ her house and shut the door.intountilduringwith30sEditDelete
- Q12True or false: Prepositions can show relation in time, space, location, or distance.FalseTrue30sEditDelete
- Q13A prepositional phrase begins with a ______________ and ends with a ______________________.preposition ; noun or pronounnoun or pronoun ; prepositionpreposition ; prepositionpreposition ; adjective30sEditDelete
- Q14Identify the prepositional phrases: The dog in the house wagged his tail with happiness.wagged his tail ; with happinessin the house ; wagged his tailthe dog in ; with happinessin the house ; with happiness30sEditDelete
- Q15True or false: there can be more than one prepositional phrase in a sentence.TrueFalse30sEditDelete
- Q16Identify the prepositions: The directions say we should go to the right of this hotel.the ; thisto ; ofright ; hotelto ; right30sEditDelete
- Q17In this prepositional phrase: "below the chandelier," what is the object of the preposition?there isn't onethechandelierbelow30sEditDelete
- Q18Identify the prepositional phrase: On the other hand, I am a little tired.a little tiredI amOn the other handthe other hand30sEditDelete
- Q19Identify the prepositions: Ms. Blanchard went to the store and bought prizes for the people who did well on the quiz.to ; for ; onwent ; to ; thewent ; bought ; wellto ; the ; who30sEditDelete
- Q20Identify the prepositional phrase: Finish the quiz on the computer.on the computerfinish the quizthe quiz onquiz on the computer30sEditDelete