Grammar Drill - Prepositional Phrases

Question 1

background

Answer 1

• a prepositional phrase consists of a preposition plus it’s object and any modifiers

Question 2

note

Answer 2

• the problem we often find in using prepositional phrases in our sentences is that we make our verb agree with the object of the preposition instead of the subject of the sentence
• when the prepositional phrase comes between the subject and verb, it can be tricky to make the verb agree with the subject of the sentence and not the object of the preposition

Question 3

examples

Answer 3

• e.g., through the fragrant woods (through-preposition; woods-object; the, fragrant-modifiers)
• e.g., into the muddy stream (into-preposition; stream-object; the, muddy-modifiers)
• e.g., for that shy girl )for-preposition; girl-object; that, shy-modifiers)