This document discusses prepositions and their function in sentences. It defines a preposition as a word that shows the relationship between a noun or pronoun and another word. It provides examples of how prepositions show relationships of location, timing, and direction. Common prepositions are listed and examples are given of prepositional phrases with the object of the preposition identified.

1. How can I identify prepositions and their function in a sentence?

2. A word that shows a relationship
between a noun or pronoun and
some other word in the sentence.
The baseball player in the
white shirt
hit a homerun.

3. A preposition is a part of speech
that shows a relationship between
two things.
• Prepositions show relationship by:
•Location (on, under, in)
•Timing (before, after, during)
•Direction (from, toward, to)

4. Location
Prepositions show
the location or
movement of an
object in many
different ways!

5. Location
The mouse is under the table.
• Two things: mouse + table
• Relationship: one is under the other
• Under is a preposition!

6. Timing
Prepositions show
the relationship of a
noun or pronoun to
time.

7. Timing
Kate ate breakfast before her
brother.
• Two things: Kate + Kate’s brother
• Relationship: one is before the other
• Before is a preposition!

8. Direction or Movement
Prepositions show
the relationship of a
noun or pronoun in
a direction or
movement to
another object.

9. Direction or Movement
The boys sailed across the vast
lake.
• Two things: boys + lake
• Relationship: one is crossing the other
• Across is a preposition!

10. Common Prepositions
Here is a list of the most common prepositions:
aboard along behind but from off past until
about amid below by in on since up
above among beneath down inside onto through upon
across around beside during into out to with
after at between except near outside toward within
against before beyond for of over under without

11. A word that shows a relationship between
a noun or pronoun and some other word
in the sentence. (Add prepositions below.)
______ her boat ______noon
______ a house ______ class
______ the goat ______ a goon
______ a tree _______ a pass
on
in
near
under
before
during
without
about

12. Always begins with a
preposition and ends with a
noun or pronoun.
Write sentences for these prepositional phrases:
under the doors
on the Lake Michigan shore

13. The baseball player in the
white shirt
hit a homerun.
OBJECT OF THE
PREPOSITION
The OP is the noun or pronoun
that ends a prepositional phrase.

14. The noun or pronoun that ends a prepositional
phrase.
on her boat before noon
in a house during class
near the goat about a goon
under a tree without a pass
OBJECT OF THE
PREPOSITION