The document discusses how prepositional phrases can act as adjectives in sentences. It provides the example sentence "The birds were singing in the old oak tree" and rewrites it as "The birds in the old oak tree were singing." This shows that the prepositional phrase "in the old oak tree" is no longer describing the verb but instead describing the subject "birds" by specifying which birds were singing. Similarly, a phrase like "with blue spots" tells us what kind of birds were singing. The document concludes by listing words containing the suffix "/cious/".

2. Prepositional
PhrasesActing
asAdjectives
Do you remember?
Prepositional phrases can act as
adverbs?
They can act as adjectives as well.
Identify the prepositional phrase in the
following sentence.
“The birds were
singing in the old oak
tree”.

3. Prepositional
Phrases
What the phrase is doing?
Can we rewrite the sentence so the
prespositional phrase is at the
beginning?

4. Prepositional
PhrasesActing
Adjectives
The birds in the old oak tree were
singing.
In this sentence, what is the phrase
describing?

5. Prepositional
Phrases acting
asAdjectives
It is no longer describing the verb:
instead, it is doing the job of an
adjective, describing the birds by
telling us which ones were singing.
Similarly, in a sentene like “The
bird with blue spots were singing”.
The prepositional phrase tells us
what kind of birds were singing.

6. Spelling List 9
/cious/
graciously, conscious, viciously,
unconscious, semi-precious,
suspiciously, malicious, atrocious,
luscious, vivacious, tenacious,
ferociously, audacious, auspicious,
officious, voracious, precocious,
subconscious