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Prepositions

Learn about the role of prepositional phrases, direct objects, compound subjects, helping verbs, infinitives, imperatives, and the difference between prepositions and adverbs in sentences.

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Prepositions

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  1. Prepositions

  2. What is a prepositional phrase? • They tell: WHERE, WHEN, AND HOW • Begins with a preposition and ends with a noun or pronoun • Will not be the subject or verb of the sentence What is a direct object? • Direct objects receive the action of the verb in a sentence.

  3. Compound Objects • Sometimes the prepositional phrase will have two or more nouns or pronouns following the preposition. • Examples: • to the store and post office • with John and me

  4. Compound Subjects • Sometimes there may be two or more subjects in the sentence. • Example: • During the snowstorm, the boys and girlsrushed home.

  5. do, does, did has, have, had may, might, must should, could, would shall, will, can is, am, are, was, were, be, being, been Helping Verbs:

  6. Not • Not is never a verb. Not is an adverb. • Put a box around not or n’t. • Examples: • The child with the red hair did not sit beside me. • This houseis not for sale.

  7. Infinitives • Sometimes the word to will come before a verb. • TO + VERB = INFINITIVE • TO + VERB IS NOT A PREPOSTITIONAL PHRASE • Place an infinitive in parenthesis. • Example: Ilike (to sing) in the morning.

  8. Imperatives • An imperative sentence gives a command. • In an imperative sentence, the subject is the word (You). • (You) is written at the beginning of the sentence or near the verb, it is underlined, and placed in parenthesis. • Example: (You) Go down the street.

  9. Preposition vs. Adverb • If a preposition is standing alone, then it is an adverb. • If you see two prepositions next to each other, one of them is part of the prepositional phrase, and the other is the adverb. • Example: The dogsqueezed in through the door. • Place a star above prepositions that are working as adverbs.

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