Prepositional phrases begin with a preposition and end with a noun or pronoun. They modify nouns and verbs and add context to sentences. Adjectival prepositional phrases function as adjectives by describing nouns. They provide details like "in the beginning" or "under the couch." To expand sentences, adjectival prepositional phrases can be added before nouns to make writing more descriptive.

1. The girl loves to walk
The dog sat
You should attend the meeting
I saw a bird
Spiders do not usually build webs
under
in
near during
at on
beside
the market.
the tree.
the city.
the school.
the morning.
sunset.
the beautiful lake.

2. Always begins with a preposition
and ends with a noun or pronoun.
They are formed like this:
preposition + optional modifiers + noun
pronoun
or gerund
Prepositional Phrase
Example: over the rainbow
(over = preposition) + (the = article) + (rainbow = noun)

3.  in the beginning
 before the fall
 after the brutal fight
 in school
 down the isle
 across the street
 inside your ear
 outside the house
 between two girls
 by chewing
 behind the scenes
 on the wooden table
 under the couch
 around the bend
 down in the trap
 into the woods
EXAMPLES

5. How to expand sentences
using them?
ADJECTIVAL
PREPOSITIONAL
PHRASES

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

7. The man in black coat sings a song.

8. Mr. Smith taught us the importance of education.

9. Several of the students failed in the exam.

10. Someone in the class admires
Lee Min Ho.

11. EXERCISE

12. 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?

13. QUIZ

14. 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 of
Sri Lanka just south of the Indian
subcontinent.
Underline the adjectival prepositional
phrases, and circle the word they modify in
the following sentences.

15. 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.

16. 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.

17. 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.

18. THE END