The document provides an overview of common prepositions and their usage in sentences. It explains prepositional phrases, which add detail by showing the relationship of nouns/pronouns to other words, and includes examples illustrating their function as adjectives and adverbs. Additionally, it discusses the object of the preposition and how to identify it in various contexts.

1. Common prepositions
About before during over
Above behindfor since
Across below from through
After beneath in to
Against beside into under
Along between like until
Among beyond of up
Around by off upon
At down on with

2. Prepositional
Phrases
 Add detail to your writing.
 Shows the relationship of a noun/pronoun to
some other word in a sentence.
 Begins with a preposition and ends with a noun
or a pronoun.

3. Example:
The birds sat under the trees and searched
for food.
Prepositional phrases:
under the trees
for food

4. A prepositional phrase sometimes
works as an adjective…
The cake on the table looked stale.

5. A prepositional phrase sometimes
works as an adverb…
The burglar entered through the basement
window.

6. You try…
They crowded into the room.

7. Object of the preposition
The noun or pronoun which ends this type of
phrase.
The birds sat [under the trees] and searched
[for food].
Object of preposition: trees, food

8. The words between the preposition and the
object of the preposition are adjectives and
adverbs.
One [of the girls] [in the new blue car] is my
sister.

9. When the object of the preposition
is compound
Example:
Barbara was walking [with Jon and me].
The word “and” is a conjunction, so both Jon
and me are objects of the preposition.