0009 Can You Identify Prepositional Phrases with Nouns as the Objects?

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.

 

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     Soon we are going to diagram the sentences we use.  Diagramming helps us to map our sentences—to see the structure or skeleton of a sentence.  This can help us determine if a sentence is correctly constructed.  This is the base line for diagramming all sentences.

A prepositional phrase will sit on its own structure with the preposition on the diagonal line and its object on the horizontal line.  The prepositional structure hangs off the main base line of the sentence (or clause) under the word it modifies.  For now, we will not worry about where it attaches to the main diagramming line.  Instead, practice placing each of the prepositional phrases you marked above on lines such as this.  The first one is done for you.  You only need to do the preposition and its object, but I am also giving you an example of how to diagram the adjectives inside the prepositional phrase, too.  Below the YouTube video of the lesson, you will find the answers.

For more practice, click More Practice Identifying Prepositional Phrases with Nouns as Objects to download a pdf with more practice and answers to the practice worksheet.  Then go to Lesson 0010 What Kinds of Pronouns Can Be the Objects of Prepositions? Followed by Video 0011 “Can You Find a Prepositional Phrase with a Pronouns as its Object?”

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