Practice Makes Perfect: Exploring Grammar - Muschla Gary Robert 2010

Long Before E-Mail
Prepositional phrases
Prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections

Long ago, it might have taken weeks to send a letter from one part of the country to another. In the 1860s, riders on horses carried letters between St. Joseph, Missouri, and Sacramento, California. What was the name of this mail service?

To answer the question, read each sentence below. Find the object in the prepositional phrase. Choose your answers from the words after each sentence. Write the letter of each answer in the space above its sentence number at the bottom of the page. You will need to divide the letters into words.

1. Kevin would be lost without his computer.

S. lost

X. computer

2. He uses his computer for school.

E. computer

O. school

3. He researches topics on the Internet.

N. topics

R. Internet

4. For entertainment, Kevin plays computer games.

N. entertainment

S. games

5. Each day he sends e-mail to his friends.

R. e-mail

P. friends

6. In the evening he checks his messages.

E. evening

P. messages

7. His friends send many messages to Kevin.

E. messages

S. Kevin

8. In seconds he answers them.

Y. seconds

T. them