Can You Identify a Prepositional Phrase with a Noun as the Object?  If you have been following English with Mrs. English and done your assignments, you should be able to do it with no problem.  You may want to start by watching a video of this lesson on the English with Mrs. English YouTube channel.

Prepositions dance with nouns to bring extra meaning, depth, and information to a sentence.  You began memorizing a list of prepositions in lesson 4.  In lesson 5, we defined a preposition as a word that begins a prepositional phrase, which then ends with a noun or pronoun, also called the object of the preposition.  The whole prepositional phrase functions as an adjective or adverb in a sentence.

In lesson 7 we defined a noun as a person, place, thing, activity, or idea.  In lesson 8, we discovered that articles, also called noun indicators, are the words a, an, and the.  An article does not always accompany a noun, but when you see an article you know a noun will follow it.  Sometimes adjectives will sneak in between the article and its noun.

Are you ready to identify a prepositional phrase with a noun as its object?  If you cannot recite the complete list of prepositions from memory, you should still be able to recognize them when you see them if you have been practicing the list.

In this lesson, I am going to give you six sentences.  I want you to identify and circle each preposition and its object—a noun. The connect the preposition and the object with an arch I call a “rainbow connection” to remind us that the whole prepositional phrase works together in a sentence as an adjective or adverb.  No individual word can be pulled out of the phrase to perform a separate job in the sentence.

Here are your sentences:

Identify the prepositional phrase in each sentence.

Sally leaned against the house.

Henry sat on the chair.

The boy in the overalls is my brother.

The cat on the couch is mine.

At the top of the hill sits the hermit.