Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases

Prepositions

• A preposition is a word that shows the relationship between a noun or a pronoun and some other word in a sentence.

Commonly Used Prepositions• Aboard About Above• Across After Against• Along Among Around• At Before Behind• Below Beneath Beside• Between Beyond By• Down During Except• For From In

Commonly Used Prepositions• Into Like Of

• Off On Over

• Past Near Since

• Through Throughout To

• Toward UnderUnderneath

• Until Up Upon

• With Within Without

Some Compound Prepositions

• According to Aside from

• Because of In addition to

• In place of In spite of

• Next to On account of

• Out of

The Prepositional Phrase

• A preposition is usually followed by at least one noun or pronoun.

• This noun is called the object of the preposition.

• The preposition, its object, and the object’s modifiers make up a prepositional phrase.

• Examples:

• He poured gravy over the mashed potatoes.

• He hid inside his closet.