A prepositional phrase begins with a preposition and ends with this.
What is a noun or pronoun?
100
Identify one of the prepositional phrases in the following sentence: The centerpiece of the complex is a huge bronze statue of Standing Bear, a Ponca chief.
What is of the complex or of Standing Bear?
100
Identify the appositive phrase: The eight-acre park and cultural center is dedicated to six Plains Indian peoples—the Kaw, Osage, Otoe-Missouri, Pawnee, Ponca, and Tonkawa.
What is the Kaw, Osage, Otoe-Missouri, Pawnee, Ponca, and Tonkawa.
100
Identify the participial phrase: Standing Bear Native American Memorial Park, located in Ponca City, Oklahoma,
opened in 1996.
What is located in Ponca City, Oklahoma?
100
The phrase in the sentence should be placed where to make it more logical: Watching television, the right kinds of programs can be educational and worthwhile for children.
What is next to children?
200
Participial phrases function as this.
What is an adjective?
200
Identify the prepositional phrase: At the statue’s base are an eternal flame and a reflecting pool.
What is at the statue's base?
200
Identify the Appositive phrase: It is the creation of Oreland Joe, Sr., an award-winning sculptor.
What is an award-winning sculptor?
200
Identify the participial phrase: Joe worked almost a year to complete this 3500-pound monument, standing as the tallest statue in Oklahoma.
What is standing as the tallest statue in Oklahoma?
200
The phrase needs to be placed where to make it more logical: Mastering parallel parking, the traffic officer carefully watched the young driver maneuver his Nissan truck into the slot in front of the golf shop.
What is next to the young driver?
300
Appositives redefine this.
What is a noun?
300
Identify one of the prepositional phrases: Wasted by our reliance on computers we throw away mounds of paper.
What is by our reliance; on computers; or of paper?
300
Identify the appositive phrase: The centerpiece of the complex is a huge bronze statue of Standing Bear, a Ponca chief.
What is a Ponca chief?
300
Identify the participial phrase: The seals of the six peoples encircling the pool represent those that assisted in making the park a reality.
What is encircling the pool?
300
The phrase needs to be placed where to make it more logical: Visiting her aunt in Buffalo, the train was fifteen minutes late, so Juanita had to buy another ticket.
What is next to Juanita?
400
A phrase is missing this.
What is a subject and a verb?
400
The comma goes where in the following sentence: After the fireworks show in July we visited the ice cream stand.
What is after July?
400
The comma goes where in the following sentence: Thomas Jefferson admired the work of an important Italian architect of the 17th century Andrea Palladio.
What is after century?
400
The comma goes where in the following sentence: Prolonging our lives hundreds of drugs are now on the market.
What is after lives?
400
The phrase needs to be placed where to make it more logical: Exploding in bright colors, the crowd loved the fireworks.
What is next to fireworks?
500
The only time a comma is not required with a series of prepositional phrases at the beginning of a sentence is when
What is a verb directly follows the phrase?
500
The comma goes where in the following sentence: By age sixteen Hitler had developed an interest in politics.
What is after sixteen?
500
The comma goes where in the following sentence: Young Abraham Lincoln a gangling boy was largely self-educated.
What is after Lincoln and after boy?
500
The comma goes where in the following sentence: Performing on stage, on radio, and in motion pictures Paul Robeson had a long career.
What is after pictures?
500
The phrase needs to be placed where to make it more logical: Sledding down the slick, white hill, I stopped for a moment to watch the children.