Prepositions
Parts of Speech
Learning objective:
The student will identify common prepositions to effectively write sentences.
A preposition is a word that describes or indicates the location or direction of objects in a sentence There are several kinds of prepositions. Prepositions of time, place, and movement.
Prepositions
Example: The diver swam in a large fish tank.
Example: The praying mantis sat in top of a leaf.
Example: She wrote on a page in the book.
Commonly Used Prepositions
Create a sentence that uses a preposition (or two) that describes this picture.
What is an example of a preposition?
What is the definition of a preposition?
- A word that connects a noun to other words in a sentence
- A word that describes a noun
- A word that describes a verb
- A word that describes a pronoun
Which preposition describes the position of something above or higher than?
Write a sentence that contains one preposition.