Prepositions

Summary
This lesson provides an overview of prepositions, prepositional phrases, and their usage.

Objectives
• To be able to identify some of the most commonly used prepositions.

• To be able to identify the object of a preposition.

• To be able to identify prepositional phrases.

Suggested Grades
4th Grade
5th Grade
6th Grade

Excerpt
What are prepositions?
Prepositions link nouns, pronouns, and phrases to other words in a sentence. The word or words that a preposition modifies or introduces is called the object of the preposition. Prepositions generally signify a type of relationship to the object. This relationship can be spatial, logical, etc.

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