Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: College Writing Ctr at Meramec: Prepositional Phrases [Pdf]
This PDF demonstrates how to determine the subject and the verb in sentences with prepositional phrases and provides a list of the most common prepositions used in prepositional phrases.
Other
Tidewater Community College: Writing Center: Prepositional Phrases
Questions to ask to help identify prepositions and their purpose within each sentence. Offers list of common prepositions and examples of usage.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Recognizing Prepositional Pharases
This tutorial focuses on prepositional phrases and their modifiers. It offers a video lesson including a list of common prepositions and how to punctuate prepositional phrases at the beginning and end of sentences. Real Player is required.
University of Calgary
The Basic Elements of English: Phrase Identification
This section of an online grammar guide provides a definition and examples of phrases, as well as information and an interactive exercise on distinguishing types of phrases and clauses. It offers links to various types of phrases and...
Towson University
Towson University: Online Writing Support: Prepositions
This entry focuses on prepositions, prepositional phrases, and particles including defining and providing examples of each. It also offers an explanation of the difference between prepositions and particles and lists of common...
Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies
Mocomi: What Is a Phrase?
List the different types of phrases with examples and a fun exercise to try.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Prepositions [Pdf]
This is a one-page PDF of a list of 48 of the most common prepositions.
English Plus+
Grammar Slammer Glossary: Prepositions
This site offers a basic definition of prepositions, along with a chart of the most common ones. Some of the prepositions listed serve as a hypertext link to more detailed information on that specific word.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Yankee Doodle Prepositions
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will never forget prepositions again! Students will memorize a list of commonly used prepositions through song and identify the elements of a prepositional phrase. Performance Assessment...
Towson University
Towson University: Online Writing Support: Exercises
This page offers a list of links to exercises/quizzes on the following topics: Parts of Speech/Grammar; Prepositional and Verbal Phrases; Adjectival, Adverbial, Nominal Phrases, and Clauses; Punctuation, Sentence Structure, Usage,...
Other
Bowdoin Coll.: Spanish Grammar: Verbs Followed by Prepositions Before Infinitive
Many verbs need a preposition before an infinitive. This site provides a substantial list of verbs which require a pronoun before an infinitive and the meaning of the phrase it creates.