1. What is used to show the relationship of a noun or a pronoun to another word?
Answer: a preposition
2.How of the following two sentences contain a prepostion? How can you tell?
- 1. The helicopter hovered above.
- 2. The helicopter hovered above the crowd.
Answer: 2. Because the preposition, above, is followed by a noun object, crowd. In the first sentence, above is an adverb.
3. Identify the preposition(s) and in the following sentence. Also give the object of each preposition.
The man drove his car through the field.
Answer: preposition: through; object: field.
4. Identify the preposition(s) in the following sentence. Also give the object of each preposition.
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall and shut his eyes.
Answer: preposition: on; object: wall
5. Identify the preposition(s) in the following sentence. Also give the object of each preposition.
The cottage next to the creek is surrounded by a white picket fence.
Answer: prepositions: next to, by; objects: creek, fence.
