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Impressionism: Prepositions and Monet Student Handout

Prepositional Phrases

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Prepositions show relationships between nouns or pronouns and other words in a sentence.

Commonly used prepositions include:

aboard, about, above, across, after, against, along, among, around, at, before, behind,
below, beneath, beside, between, beyond, by, down, during, except, for, from, in, into,
like, near, of, off, on, out, over, past, since, through, throughout, to, toward, under,
underneath, until, up, upon, with, within, without.

Prepositional phrases generally contain the preposition and an object of the preposition. Objects
of the preposition must be nouns.

Exercise: Identifying Prepositions

Circle the prepositions in these sentences:

1. We had a picnic in the park.

2. Keep your bike outside the house.

3. My best friend sits behind me.

4. Inside the hole lives a little black rabbit.

5. Always walk between the two white lines.

6. The cat chased the mouse into his hole.

7. The fruit on the table is still not ripe.

8. Take your shoes off the table.

9. Their plane flew across the Pacific Ocean.

10. Do you want to go to the movies?

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