Sunday, May 22, 2005

 

Using prepositions for descriptions

Prepositional phrases often follow nouns to give us more information about their location. Let's start with a noun like juice.If we want to be more specific, we could say,"the juice in the glass." Now we have another noun, glass. We can say something more specific about that noun, too. We could say, for example, " the glass on the table." Let's put those nouns and phrases together: the juice in the glass on the table. We could even go one step more and tell something about the location of the table: the juice in the glass on the table in the kitchen. Notice how the prepositional phrase directly follows the noun it is talking about.

Assignment:
Make a series of 2 prepositional phrase groups using on, in, under, by, or near and beginning with the following nouns : bicycle, chair, picture, coffee cup, shoes, newspaper, man. Don't forget to use an article with your nouns.
Example: car--a car near the tree in the parking lot



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