Practice Makes Perfect: Exploring Grammar - Muschla Gary Robert 2010

Lots of Animals
Interjections
Prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections

This is the largest of all animal groups. It includes insects, arachnids (spiders), and crustaceans (shrimp and lobsters). What is the name of this animal group?

To answer the question, read each sentence below. Decide if the sentence has a prepositional phrase. If it does, find the object of the preposition. 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. If a sentence has no prepositional phrase, write the letter for none.

1. There are many different kinds of animals.

M. kinds

H. animals

C. none

2. Animals are found all around the world.

H. all

P. world

R. none

3. Some animals are very small, and others are very big.

T. small

N. others

S. none

4. Fish are animals that breathe with gills.

W. animals

T. gills

I. none

5. They live in water and have scales.

D. water

R. scales N. none

6. Birds have feathers and fly with wings.

E. feathers

A. wings

O. none

7. Mammals are an important animal group.

S. animal

C. group

R. none

8. A few mammals hatch from eggs, but most are born live.

O. eggs

U. live

E. none