University of Calgary
University of Calgary: Sentence Elements: Prepositional Phrases
This section of an online grammar guide explains how to identify prepositional phrases.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Prepositional Phrase
Defines and provides examples of seven different types of phrases. The following types of phrases are included: absolute, appositive, gerund, infinitive, noun, participial, and prepositional. L.9-10.1b Phrases/Clauses
Education Place
Houghton Mifflin: Eduplace: Grammar Blast: Unit 7: Prepositional Phrases
Practice your prepositional phrase skills with this interactive quiz.
Other
Pearson Adult Learning Center: Prepositional Phrases: Adjective or Adverb?
A ten-question quiz where students are asked to determine if the prepositional phrase in each sentence acts as an adjective or an adverb. Immediate feedback is provided for each answer and a percentage score is tallied and displayed...
The Tongue Untied
The Tongue Untied: Prepositional Phrase
The Tongue Untied is a guide to grammar, punctuation, and style for journalists, and it has great information on the prepositional phrase. The site provides numerous examples along with information on usage and tips for recognizing...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Special Places to Love: Thoughtful Prepositional Phrases
In this lesson students learn to write meaningful prepositional phrases in order to evoke thoughtful word choice.
TES Global
Tes: Expanded Noun Phrases Grammar Narrative
[Free Registration/Login Required] This activity gives students the opportunity to add a prepositional phrase to a noun. In this activity, students will use the preposition "with" to begin the elaborative phrase for each provided noun.
University College London
University College London: Phrases
This section of a University College of London online English-grammar book defines and provides examples of adjective phrases, adverb phrases, and prepositional phrases. It also provides an exercise, which can be evaluated and scored, on...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Appositive Phrases & Adverbial & Adjectival Phrases and Clauses
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson discusses the building blocks of phrases and clauses. Notice how the building blocks of phrases follow the parts of speech-nouns, verbs, adjectives, and so on....
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Absolute Phrase
Understanding how phrases are built and function will be an invaluable tool for students. This tutorial features many examples to help the student in grasping grammar concepts.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: American Lit and Composition: Transcendentalism: Phrases
This lesson focuses on various types of phrases including: Prepositional, Appositive, Participial, Gerund, and Infinitive. It defines each and provides examples; these are followed by a self-assessment identifying the different types of...
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: Prepositions
This site offers basic but very thorough information on prepositions and prepositional phrases. Uses visual images and simple explanations, including a more detailed discussion of how some prepositional phrases also serve as...
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.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: The Garden of Phrases
This tutorial provides rules, explanations, and examples for noun phrases, prepositional phrases, appositive phrases, absolute phrases, gerund phrases, participial phrases, and infinitive phrases. Also includes an interactive quiz....
Other
Tidewater Community College: Writing Center: Prepositional Phrases
Questions to ask to help identify prepositions and their purpose within each sentence. Offers list of common prepositions and examples of usage.
The Tongue Untied
The Tongue Untied: Phrase Practice Exercise
The Tongue Untied provides a twenty-question interactive quiz on phrases where the underlined group of words must be identified as either a prepositional phrase, participial phrase, gerund phrase, or infinitive phrase.
The Tongue Untied
The Tongue Untied: Interactive Phrase Quiz #1
The Tongue Untied provides a twenty-question interactive quiz on phrases where the underlined group of words must be identified as either an infinitive phrase, appositive, gerund phrase, prepositional phrase, clause, or participial phrase.
The Tongue Untied
The Tongue Untied: Interactive Phrase Quiz #2
The Tongue Untied provides a twenty-question interactive quiz on phrases where the underlined group of words must be identified as either an infinitive phrase, appositive, gerund phrase, prepositional phrase, clause, or participial phrase.
University College London
University College London: More Phrase Types
This University College London section of a chapter from an online English-grammar book defines and provides examples of different types of phrases, including noun phrases and verb phrases. This site is currently free but may not be in...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Phrases
A screencast lesson [3:38] defining a phrase, introducing different types of phrases, and explaining how to recognize phrases within sentences.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Meet the Preposition With Pictures
Which preposition works best with the illustration?
University of Calgary
The Basic Elements of English: Phrase Identification
This section of an online grammar guide provides a definition and examples of phrases, as well as information and an interactive exercise on distinguishing types of phrases and clauses. It offers links to various types of phrases and...
University of Calgary
University of Calgary: Practice Distinguishing Phrases
This section of an online grammar guide provides a review of and an interactive exercise on identifying different types of phrases.