Learning about prepositions

Prepositions

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Maram Bassem

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Preposition This could be teach to the students in the 5th

grade. To make students aware of how prepositional phrases can easily add detail to a sentence.

This presentation was created as a way to reinforce the use of prepositions in a student’s writing. Especially concentrating on the use of the preposition followed by a definite article .

What is a Preposition?

•A preposition is a word which shows the relationship between one thing and another.

•It links nouns, pronouns and phrases to other words in the sentence.

What can prepositions tell you?

1- It may tell you where a thing is in relation to something else.

What else can prepositions tell you?

2-It may tell you when something is in relation to another event.

For example: She refused to leave the house until the postman had been.

3- A preposition may tell you the position of something in relation to something else.

For example: The brown dog slept beside white rabbit.

What else can prepositions tell you?

4- It may also tell you the direction something is travelling in relation to something else.

Here are some more prepositions.

come on let us to solve some exercises

Where is the Fido?

Fido is _ the doghouse.

Where is the Fido?

Fido is the doghouse.in

Where is the house?

The house is the hill.

Where is the house?

The house is the hill.on

Where is the elephant?

The elephant is the question mark.

Where is the elephant?

The elephant is the question mark.

under

Here comes the tricky part!!

Pay attention!!

You can do it!!

Find the prepositions in the following sentences:

1) Do you like to play hide-and-go-seek?

2) My favorite place to hide is under the kitchen table.

3) If someone is already there, I usually try in the bathroom closet.

4) If there is not enough room in the closet, I will crawl under my bed.

Did you find all 4?

1) Do you like to play hide-and-go-seek?

2) My favorite place to hide is under the kitchen table.

3) If someone is already there, I usually try in the bathroom closet.

4) If there is not enough room in the closet, I will crawl under my bed.

Which of the following words are NOT prepositions?

across

which

from

over

what

for

how

between

round

up

whenever

before

The GREEN words are NOT prepositions

across

which

from

over

what

for

how

between

round

up

whenever

before

THE END!!!

GREAT JOB!!!