A prepositional phrase is a phrase consisting of a preposition and its object. The object of a preposition may be a noun, a noun phrase or a pronoun.
Pick out the prepositional phrases in these sentences. Some sentences may contain more than one prepositional phrase.
- There is a hole in the sole of my shoe.
- There are boats for rent at the lake.
- He parked his car in front of the house across the street.
- The water seeped through the crevices of the casement.
- We have not been there since April.
- What is good for the goose is good for the gander.
- She entered the university in the fall of 1968.
- The boys peered through the window panes of the basement.
- We will be in your area in the coming months.
- After a few months, your kitchen scraps near the bottom of your composter will have decomposed.