PREPOSITIONAL PHRASES

A prepositional phrase is a group of words that begins with a preposition and ends with a noun, pronoun, or noun
phrase (this noun, pronoun, or noun phrase is the object of the preposition).

A prepositional phrase is a phrase beginning with a preposition. Prepositional phrases consist of (1) a
preposition, (2) the object of that preposition, and (3) words that modify the object, if any.

I. Identify the prepositional phrases of the following sentences.

1. She stood behind me.
2. She stood behind Jyothi.
3. She stood behind my new red car.
4. We left after the match.
5. The commentary after the match was boring.
6. After the match will be too late for dinner.
7. On the way to school, I saw any elephant.
8. The man in the red shirt arrived after me.
9. She was travelling with her grandmother.
10. A cat lay under the table.
11. There was a crowd in front of the gate.
12. Radhika works for a law firm.
13. For the sake of his daughter, he decided to stay.
14. I will meet you at the station.
15. We explored the lanes of the ancient town.
16. This lamp from Arabia is believed to make wishes come true.
17. Did you see the medals in the living room that Vimala won?
18. The song ‘Vande Mataram’ by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee compares the nation to a mother.
19. The man speaking on the stage wrote a novel about two brothers.
20. The water in the bottle was dirty.

II. Re-read the following lines from Keats’s poem ‘La Belle Dame sans Merci’, and underline the
prepositional phrases. In each case, identify the preposition, its object, and the modifiers of the
object (if any).

1. O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms,

Alone and palely loitering?
The sedge has withered from the lake,
And no birds sing.
2. I see a lily on thy brow,
With anguish moist and fever-dew,
And on thy cheeks a fading rose
Fast withereth too.

3. I met a lady in the meads,

Full beautiful – a faery’s child,
Her hair was long, her foot was light,
And her eyes were wild.

4. I set her on my pacing steed,

And nothing else saw all day long,
For sidelong would she bend, and sing
A faery’s song.

5. She found me roots of relish sweet,

And honey wild, and manna-dew,
And sure in language strange she said—
‘I love thee true’.

6. She took me to her elfin grot,

And there she wept and sighed full sore,
And there I shut her wild eyes
With kisses four.
 DIPHTHONGS

I. Identify the diphthong sounds of the words given below, and write down their phonemic symbols.
1. toy 2. hear 3. phone 4. hair 5. Say 6. Wait
7. count 8. crowd 9. noise 10. Destroy 11. Ear 12. Pay
13. familiar 14. eight 15. poor 16. Sure 17. Oil 18. Boy
19. oak 20. go 21. air 22. Care 23. Ice 24. Lie
25. out 26. now

/p/ - pet /t/ -tabLe /k/ - coop /f/ -father

/b/ -bag /d/ -date /g/ -gap /v/ -van
/s/ -see /ʃ/ -ship /tʃ/ -chair /θ/ -thick
/z/ -zip /ʒ/ -closure /dʒ/ - job /ð/ -then
/l/ -lamp /m/ -mother /n/ -nap /ŋ/ -king
/h/ -hat /r/ -read /w/ -went /j/ -yesterday

/ð/ /æ/ /t/

 /ð/