Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases

First, can you guess the preposition? Right, it's the word on. Now can you guess which two words are related? This one can be tricky. This one is bit and lip. Think about it. The cow is not on the lip, me is not on the lip. The cow bit me on the lip. See if you can find a preposition here. The monkey in the closet won't leave me alone. Good, the preposition is in. Now what two words are related? Yes, it's monkey and closet. The monkey is in the closet. You've probably also noticed by now that the preposition is the first word inside that prepositional phrase. Speaking of prepositional phrases, let's look at the parts of one. First, we need to preposition, always at the beginning. Then we need an object. We'll always be at the end. And there might be some modifiers in between. In this case, the word V is an adjective. 

Don't be thrown off by compound prepositions. Here you have the words off of behaving as if they're one word. In front of behaving as if they're one preposition. And we call that simply compound preposition. Let's try some practice. Sandra cut her pinky toe on the broken glass. Can you find the phrase? First, locate the preposition. Good, it's on. Now, ask yourself, who or what? On who or on what? Sandra cut her pinky toe on what on the glass. Try this one. The baboon slapped me across the face. First, locate the preposition, then ask yourself who or what? Should have found a cross, the baboon slapped me across what? Across the face. After her nap, Cassandra found her brother stuck in her toilet. First, dissonance has two prepositional phrases. 

You should have found after her nap and in the toilet. Again, locate after and then say what, after what, after her nap. In what? In the toilet, lousy place to be. A few more. The large hairy spider crawling across sandy space dropped onto the ground. This sin is also has two prepositional phrases. Find a preposition and ask who or what. Good, across sandy space and onto the ground. Thomas meshed a spider with his boot. With his boot. Good. You'll also notice that most of the time you can remove a prepositional phrase from the sentence and still have your main sentence intact, like Thomas mass to spider. The Friends of the spider vowed revenge, locate the preposition, good is the word of nim ask of who or of what. Of the spider. And there you have it. You are by now a pro with prepositions.