Prepositional Phrases
A prepositional phrase that functions like an adjective, modifying a noun or pronoun in a sentence.
What is an adjective phrase?
A participial phrase functions like this part of speech.
What is an adjective?
A gerund phrase functions as this part of speech.
What is a noun?
An infinitive phrase functions as these parts of speech.
What is noun, adjective, or adverb?
This kind of phrase further identities or explains a noun in the sentence.
What is an appositive phrase?
A prepositional phrase that functions like an adverb, modifying a verb, adjective, or another adverb.
What is the participial phrase in the following sentence:
Soup likes the birds chirping in the maple tree.
What is "chirping in the maple tree"?
What is the gerund phrase in the following sentence:
Did you enjoy reading Romeo & Juliet?
What is "reading Romeo & Juliet"?
What is the infinitive phrase in the following sentence:
To have a snow day would be awesome.
What is "to have a snow day"?
What is the appositive phrase in the following sentence:
Jane, an art collector, bought the new painting.
What is "an art collector"?
What is the prepositional phrase in the following sentence:
Soup fell asleep beside the heater.
What is "beside the heater"?
What is the participial phrase in the following sentence:
Soup, running across the room, caused a ruckus.
What is "running across the room"?
What is the gerund phrase in the following sentence:
Martha always makes time for gardening in the backyard.
What is "gardening in the backyard"?
What is the infinitive phrase in the following sentence:
Gemma wants to go to college in state.
What is "to go to college in state"?
What is the appositive phrase in the following sentence:
Sarah, my little sister, hates onions, but loves peas.
What is "my little sister"?
What is the prepositional phrase in the following sentence:
Soup is hungry for wet food.
What is "for wet food"?
What is the participial phrase in the following sentence:
Waiting by the car, I texted my friend.
What is "waiting by the car"?
What is the gerund phrase in the following sentence:
Finishing the test will not be difficult.
What is "Finishing the test"?
What is the infinitive phrase in the following sentence:
We went to the store to purchase groceries for dinner.
What is "to purchase groceries for dinner"?
What is the appositive phrase in the following sentence:
Ashley’s camera, a Canon Rebel T-6, takes amazing pictures.
What is "a Canon Rebel T-6"?
The name of Ms. Corwin's cat.
What is Soup?
The name of the novel that we read by Sherman Alexie.
What is The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian?
The character who was pressed to death in The Crucible, who said "More weight".
Who is Giles Corey?
The four main writers we studied during our Romanticism unit.
Who is Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, and Walt Whitman?
The fancy word meaning "the appearance of being true or real".
What is "verisimilitude"?