Identify
The keys are on the table?
What is "on"?
What is the object of the preposition? What word does it modify?
The book is on the table.
What is table? book?
The painting above the fireplace is a family heirloom.
The dog in the yard is barking.
Is the phrase adjective or adverb?
What is adjective?
She is afraid ___ spiders.
what is of ?
What is the preposition?
The dog ran through the yard.
What is "through"?
What is the object of the preposition? What does it modify?
The cat slept under the bed.
What is bed? cat?
During the summer, the children played near the river and along the shoreline.
What is during the summer, near the river along the shoreline?
She ran across the field.
Is the phrase adjective or adverb?
What is adverb?
He is interested ___ history.
what is in?
What is the preposition?
She sat beside her best friend during lunch.
What is "beside" and "during"?
What is the object of the preposition? What does it modify?
She walked through the park with her friends.
What is park and friends? she ?
The students in the back row of the classroom whispered quietly during the lecture.
What is in the back row, of the classroom, during the lecture?
The book on the desk belongs to me.
Is the phrase adjective or adverb?
What is on the desk (adjective.. tells which book) and to me (adverb... tell me who it belongs to modified by the verb (belongs) ?
They are responsible ___ cleaning the room.
what is for?
What is the preposition?
The teacher walked across the room and toward the door.
What is "across" and "toward"?
What is the object of the preposition? what does it modify?
The boy in the blue shirt sat beside his sister.
What is shirt and sister? boy?
After the meeting, the manager spoke with the interns about the project on sustainability.
what is after the meeting, with the interns, on sustainability?
The students in the classroom worked quietly during the test.
Identify each phrase as adjective or adverb.
What is in the classroom (adjective ... tells us which students.. modify by a noun) and during the test (adverb.. tells us when they worked .. modified by the verb worked)?
She insisted ___ paying for dinner.
what is on?
What is the prepositon?
According to the rules, students must remain inside during the storm.
What is "according to", "inside", and "during"?
What is the object of the preposition? what does it modify ?
According to the teacher, the assignment in the textbook is due before Friday.
What is teacher, textbook, Friday? assignment ?
According to the instructions on the worksheet, students must submit their essays to the teacher before the end of the week.
What is according to the instructions, on the worksheet, to the teacher, before the end, of the week?
The painting on the wall in the hallway was admired by everyone.
Identify each phrase as adjective or adverb.
What is on the wall (adjective), in the hallway (adjective), and by everyone (adverb)?
He has a talent ___ playing multiple instruments.
what is for?