Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: The Prepositional Phrase
Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to identify a prepositional phrase in the context of a sentence.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: How to Use Prepositional Phrases
Prepositions indicate the location of a thing to another thing across time or space. Prepositional phrases contain a preposition and its object. [0:44]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Prepositional Phrases
This lesson focuses on prepositional phrases; it defines them and discusses their functions. It explains the purpose, role, location, and construction of prepositional phrases.
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: The Object of the Preposition
Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to identify an object of the preposition in the context of a sentence.
University College London
University College London: Phrases
This section of a University College of London online English-grammar book defines and provides examples of adjective phrases, adverb phrases, and prepositional phrases. It also provides an exercise, which can be evaluated and scored, on...
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Absolute Phrase
Understanding how phrases are built and function will be an invaluable tool for students. This tutorial features many examples to help the student in grasping grammar concepts.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Appositive Phrases & Adverbial & Adjectival Phrases and Clauses
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson discusses the building blocks of phrases and clauses. Notice how the building blocks of phrases follow the parts of speech-nouns, verbs, adjectives, and so on....
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: American Lit and Composition: Transcendentalism: Phrases
This lesson focuses on various types of phrases including: Prepositional, Appositive, Participial, Gerund, and Infinitive. It defines each and provides examples; these are followed by a self-assessment identifying the different types of...
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: The Noun Phrase
Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to identify a noun phrase in the context of a sentence.
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.
The Tongue Untied
The Tongue Untied: Interactive Phrase Quiz #1
The Tongue Untied provides a twenty-question interactive quiz on phrases where the underlined group of words must be identified as either an infinitive phrase, appositive, gerund phrase, prepositional phrase, clause, or participial phrase.
The Tongue Untied
The Tongue Untied: Interactive Phrase Quiz #2
The Tongue Untied provides a twenty-question interactive quiz on phrases where the underlined group of words must be identified as either an infinitive phrase, appositive, gerund phrase, prepositional phrase, clause, or participial phrase.
The Tongue Untied
The Tongue Untied: Phrase Practice Exercise
The Tongue Untied provides a twenty-question interactive quiz on phrases where the underlined group of words must be identified as either a prepositional phrase, participial phrase, gerund phrase, or infinitive phrase.
University College London
University College London: More Phrase Types
This University College London section of a chapter from an online English-grammar book defines and provides examples of different types of phrases, including noun phrases and verb phrases. This site is currently free but may not be in...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Using Parts of Speech to Write Descriptive Sentences
Students can easily grasp the the parts of a sentence with this lesson plan.
The Tongue Untied
The Tongue Untied: Phrases
This page, from a site for University of Oregon journalism students, provides definitions of phrase, prepositional phrase, participial phrase, gerund phrase, and infinitive phrase. It also provides a brief description of how phrases...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Prepositional Poem
[Free Registration/Login Required] The students have studied prepositions. Students will use the pen/highlighting tool to answer the review questions. As a culminating project they will create a poem showing that they understand...
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: Phrase
Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to identify a phrase in the context of a sentence.
University of Victoria (Canada)
Elc Study Zone: Basic Prepositions
This site explains the various uses for "in," "on," and "at" in phrases referring to transportation, time, and communications (TV, radio, etc.). Also links to a practice exercise.
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: The Indirect Object
Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to identify an indirect object in the context of a sentence.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: What's My Position, Preposition?
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart gives the students opportunities to work with prepositions and prepositional phrases. Students construct their own sentences using the phrases and prepositions, sing a prepositional song,...
The Tongue Untied
The Tongue Untied: Interactive Phrase Quiz #2
A twenty-question quiz asking students to determine if the underlined phrase is an infinitive phrase, an appositive, a gerund phrase, a prepositional phrase, a clause, or a participial phrase.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Direct and Indirect Objects
This slideshow lesson focuses on direct and indirect objects. It defines and gives examples of each and explains that direct objects can be words, phrases, or clauses while indirect objects can be words, phrases, or found in...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Camping Sentences
In this instructional activity, Teaching Grammar in Context by Constance Weaver provides foundational information for this instructional activity. When I Go Camping with Grandma, a book by Marion Dane Bauer, is used as the mentor text of...