Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Common Verb and Preposition Combinations
This Grammarly Handbook resource provide numerous examples of common combinations of verbs and prepositions.
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Grammarly Blog: Unnecessary Preposition
This page explains that changes in usage over time makes the use of prepostions in certain instances unnecessary. While they are not technically incorrect, they lead to wordiness and should not be used. Examples are provided.
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Grammarly Blog: Ending a Sentence With a Preposition
This page explains when it is acceptable to end a sentence with a preposition and when it is not.
Road to Grammar
Road to Grammar
Students and teachers can find quizzes, vocabulary word search puzzles and self-tests for a variety of grammar topics: adjectives, adverbs, am -is or are, can and could, colors, countries and languages, and more. You can also find...
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Grammarly Blog: Parallelism With Prepositions
An explanation with examples of using parallel structure with prepositions.
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Grammarly Blog: Prepositions of Direction
An explanation with examples of prepositions that describe direction.
Other
Spanish in Texas: Spanish Grammar in Context Introduction to Prepositions
This Spanish language reference clarifies information about prepositions and the rules associated with prepositions. A link to common prepositions is included.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Grammar: Sentence Components
This lesson focuses on sentence components. It provides a slideshow with each of the eight parts of speech plus articles; it defines each and gives examples using them in sentences. It also offers the lyrics to "The Grammar Song" in...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Parts of Speech
This tutorial focuses on the parts of speech using 6 slideshow presentations. The first lists the 8 parts of speech and their functions; the next five discuss nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and conjunctions individually. These...
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.
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.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Prepositions
This lesson introduces prepositions and their role. This tutorial lesson shares a short screencast [2:58] and review questions over the lesson's content.
University of Ottawa (Canada)
Hyper Grammar: The Parts of Speech
This grammar tutorial site offers a thorough discussion of the various parts of speech.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Grammar: Other Parts of Speech
This instructional activity focuses on conjunctions, prepositions, and articles. It discusses the types of conjunctions and their uses, some prepositions and their uses including ending a sentence with a preposition, and definite and...
Get It Write
Get It Write: Ending Sentences With Prepositions
Read this tutorial to find out about ending sentences with prepositions, how to correct the problem, and times when it seems that sentences end in prepostions, but that really isn't the case. (Hint--when using a phrasal verb.)
Other
English Made in Brazil: "To" & "For" Comparisons
Help for Portuguese speakers learning English as a second language who tend to misuse the prepositions "to" and "for." This page clarifies usage of these prepositions and illustrates proper use with many examples and common expressions.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Meet the Preposition With Pictures
Complete each sentence by choosing the correct preposition to complete each sentence so that it matches the picture provided.
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.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Academic Writing: Sentence Variety: Strategies for Variation
This lesson offers suggestions to help you fix short, choppy sentences, combine sentences with the same subject, and revise sentences that sound the same. L.11-12.3 Language Functions/Style
Education.com
Education.com: L.4.1.e Worksheets: Form and Use Prepositional Phrases
[Free Registration/Login Required] A site with links to 8 worksheets that can be downloaded and printed for student use while building skills with standard L.4.1.E: Form and Use Prepositional Phrases.
CPALMS
Cpalms: The Preposition Factory
This interactive lesson requires students to help builders with developing clear and descriptive sentences. Students will learn about nouns, verbs, and prepositions. Students must click on sight words and pictures that answer prompts...
Other
Review and Practice: Por and Para
This site allows the user to review the uses of the prepositions por and para. After the student reviews the uses, he may practice the uses with the interactive review.
College Claparede (Switzerland)
College Claparede: English Exercises Online: Adjectives & Prepositions2
This is an interactive English cloze-style exercise using adjectives and prepositions. It offers hints, allows corrections, shows the correct answers, and provides a percentage score. It is part of an extensive extensive interactive...
College Claparede (Switzerland)
College Claparede: English Exercises Online: Adjectives & Prepositions1
An interactive English cloze-style exercise using adjectives and prepositions is the content of this site. It offers hints, allows corrections, shows the correct answers, and provides a percentage score. It is part of an extensive...