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What is a noun?
Person, place, thing, or idea
What is the preposition?
Marco Polo's family left Venice in 1271.
In
What is the adjective phrase?
Sheets of ice cover Antarctica.
Of ice
What is the adverb phrase?
Sam would not ride a horse, so he traveled on foot.
On foot
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Joe took a bus from the city (in, into) the desert
Into
What is an adjective?
A describing word that tells us more about a noun
What is the preposition?
They took young Marco with them.
With
What is the adjective phrase?
The view from the boat was spectacular.
From the boat
What is the adverb phrase?
Some of these ships carry scientists to the ocean floor.
To the ocean floor
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Joe had several juice drinks (in, into) his pack.
In
What is an adverb?
Describes a verb (When? Where? How often?)
What is the preposition?
Marco Polo wrote a book about it.
About
What is the adjective phrase?
Blue whales are the largest mammals in the world.
In the world
What is the adverb phrase?
The whale we saw in the picture is a blue whale.
In the picture
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He and another passenger had brought ten drinks (between, among) them.
Between
What is a preposition?
Shows the relationship of a noun or pronoun to another word in the sentence/ Begins with a preposition and ends in a noun (object)
What is the preposition?
They stayed there for many years.
For
What is the adjective phrase?
The porpoises' leaps into the air were unbelievable.
Into the air
What is the adverb phrase?
The revolutionary was enthusiastic about freedom.
About freedom
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He (could of, could have) kept them all for himself.
Could have
What is a prepositional phrase?
A phrase made up of a preposition, the object of the preposition, and all the words in between
What is the preposition?
Morco Polo traveled around the world.
Around
What is the adjective phrase?
Explorers with dog sleds have crossed Antarctica.
With dog sleds
What is the adverb phrase?
Water pressure would crush some ship in a moment.
In a moment
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The ride back to the city was (different from, different than) the ride to the desert.
Different from