Review of Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases

1. Prepositional Phrase
Restated from our previous discussion, prepositional phrases are
modifiers that:
• act as an adjective or an adverb
• locate something in time and space
• modifying a noun
• tell when or where or under what conditions something happened
They communicate some kind of relationship.

3. Location & Time Broken Into More Categories

4. Identify the prepositions in the following sentences:
You can sit before the desk (or in front of the desk). The professor can
sit on the desk (when he's being informal) or behind the desk, and then
his feet are under the desk or beneath the desk. He can stand beside
the desk (meaning next to the desk), before the desk, between the
desk and you, or even on the desk (if he's really strange).

5. Get ready to put your skills to the test!