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Finding Prepositional Phrases
Practice Exercise # 3
Directions: Place parentheses ( ) around every prepositional
phrase.
| The text is: |
| A Sunday school class
was studying the Ten Commandments. They were ready to discuss the last
one. The teacher asked if anyone could tell her what it was. Susie raised
her hand, stood tall, and quoted, "Thou shall not take the covers off the
neighbor's wife. |
| Work your way through the text one sentence
at a time. |
Sentence #1
| Identify all the prepositional phrases. |
| A Sunday school class
was studying the Ten Commandments. |
| There are none. |
Sentence #2
| Identify all the prepositional phrases. |
| They were ready to discuss
the last one. |
| There
are none. ("Discuss" is a verb, so "to discuss" is not a prepositional
phrase.) |
Sentence #3
| Identify all the prepositional phrases. |
| The teacher asked if anyone
could tell her what it was. |
| There
are none. |
Sentence #4
| Identify all the prepositional phrases. |
| Susie raised her hand,
stood tall, and quoted, "Thou shall not take the covers (off the neighbor's
wife.) |
| That's
it. We're done. |
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