Practice Makes Perfect: Exploring Grammar - Muschla Gary Robert 2010

President’s Plane
Prepositional phrases
Prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections

A prepositional phrase includes a preposition, its object, and any words that describe the object.

✵ A prepositional phrase always starts with a preposition.

✵ A prepositional phrase always ends with a noun or pronoun. The noun or pronoun is the object of the preposition.

✵ Only object pronouns—me, you, him, her, it, us, them—can be the object in a prepositional phrase.

✵ Prepositional phrases can be at the beginning of a sentence, in the middle, or at the end. Here are some examples:

Without my key, I couldn’t get into the house.

The roses in their yard are beautiful.

We went to the mall yesterday.

We rode in the new car.

Maria was ill with a cold.

7.4 President’s Plane

The president of the United States flies in a special jet. What is the name of the president’s plane?

To answer the question, read each sentence below. Decide which underlined words are prepositional phrases. Write the letter of each prepositional phrase in the space above its sentence number at the bottom of the page. You will need to divide the letters into words.