The girl loves to walk

The dog sat

You should attend the meeting

I saw a bird

Spiders do not usually build webs

underin

near during

at on

beside

the market.the tree.

the city.the school.

the morning. sunset.

the beautiful lake.

Always begins with a prepositionand ends with a noun or

pronoun.

They are formed like this:preposition + optional modifiers +

nounpronounor gerund

Prepositional Phrase

Example: over the rainbow

(over = preposition) + (the = article) + (rainbow = noun)

in the beginningbefore the fallafter the brutal fightin schooldown the isleacross the streetinside your earoutside the house

between two girlsby chewingbehind the sceneson the wooden tableunder the coucharound the benddown in the trapinto the woods

EXAMPLES

How to expand sentences using them?

ADJECTIVAL PREPOSITIONAL PHRASES

are phrases that begin with a preposition followed by a noun or a pronoun with its modifiers and they function as adjectives.

ADJECTIVAL PREPOSITIONALPHRASES

The man in black coat sings a song.

Mr. Smith taught us the importance of education.

Several of the students failed in the exam.

Someone in the class admiresLee Min Ho.

EXERCISE

One of the crew removed his bright-print shirt, tied it to a bamboo pole and waved it. The others hauled the fishing lines on board. But it was already late afternoon, and one by one the boats in the area headed toward land.

Identify the Adjectival Prepositional Phrase. What word does it modify?

QUIZ

1. The crew now began to realize that the glare form the sinking sun must have made their boat invisible.

2–3. The castaways fished for their livelihood, as do thousands who inhabit the coastal villages that ring the island nation ofSri Lanka just south of the Indian subcontinent.

Underline the adjectival prepositional phrases, and circle the word they modify in the following sentences.

4. The young man could not see the mountains in the island’s interior.

5. The three men discovered that the wind had shifted and was carrying them away form shore.

6-9. They could not see even a glimmer rom the lighthouse at Dondra Head on the southern tip of the island.

10. The three young men took stock of their meager stores.

11. Sunil ordered the four-gallon plastic container of fresh water.

12. They cooked the fish on their portable kerosene stove.

13. That evening Sunil took a jackknife and carved two notches in the boat’s rail.

14. There were seven notches on the Kandukaree when the weather turned rough.

15. They maid a vow to the gods.

16. They offered to exchange all their fish for a little rain.

17. On the horizon was the silhouette of a palm-fringed island.

18-20. On April 24, more than 15 weeks into the voyage of Kandukaree, the throaty thump of an engine roused the two survivors.

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