1. What is the difference between an adverb and an adjective phrase?
Answer: Adjective phrases are prepositional phrases that modify nouns or pronouns. Adverb phrases are prepositional phrases that modify verbs, adjectives or adverbs.
2. Identify each prepositional phrase and label it as an adjective or adverb phrase.
Rembrandt is well known as a painter of self-portraits.
Answer: of self-portraits, adjective phrase.
3. Identify each prepositional phrase and label it as an adjective or adverb phrase.
The rain fell in sheets.
Answer: in sheets, adverb phrase.
4. Identify each prepositional phrase and label it as an adjective or adverb phrase.
On December 7, 1941, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor.
Answer: On December 7, 1941, adverb phrase.
5. Identify each prepositional phrase and label it as an adjective or adverb phrase.
Alcatraz was a prison on an island off the coast of San Francisco.
Answer: on an island, adjective phrase; off the coast, adjective phrase; of San Francisco, adjective phrase.
