Prepositions

Prepositions

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This task is about identifying prepositions in sentences.

Prepositions show the relationship of one thing to another.

Draw a circle around all the prepositions in the following sentences. Some of the sentences contain more than one preposition. The first one has been done for you.

a) The class does its spelling  interval.
b) The teachers eat their lunch with their students.
c) The ball is under the teacher's table.
d) We will eat breakfast around seven o'clock.
e) The snow looked like white icing.
f) Marty grabbed clean socks along with his shoes.
g) Lete looked at the city below her.
h) The kite landed among the trees.
i) The game would start about nine o'clock.
j) The cricket team arrived at the ground without their bats.
k) It was very hard to choose between the flavours of icecream.
l) Sally liked to walk in the rain except when the wind was blowing.
m) Joey needed a large drink of water after his run.

 

Task administration: 
This task can be completed online or with pencil and paper.
If using pencil and paper students will need a highlighter pen.
Level:
4
Curriculum info: 
Key Competencies: 
Description of task: 
This resource assesses grammar knowledge. Students identify prepositions used in twelve sentences.
Curriculum Links: 
This resource can be used to help to identify students’ ability to create texts to meet the writing demands of the New Zealand Curriculum.

 

Links to the Literacy Learning Progressions for Writing:
This resource helps to identify students’ ability to:
  • demonstrate knowledge of how language works
as described in the Literacy Learning Progressions for Writing at: http://www.literacyprogressions.tki.org.nz/The-Structure-of-the-Progressions.
Learning Progression Frameworks
This resource can provide evidence of learning associated with within the Writing Learning Progressions Frameworks.
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Answers/responses: 
 

Y8 (08/2001)

 
b)
 
with

 An extra discussion could be had about the purposes of the identified prepositions:
(connect)

 
easy

c)

under

(position)

very easy

d)

around

(time)

easy

e)

like

(compare)

difficult

f)

along

(connect)

easy

g)

below

(position)

easy

h)

among

(position)

easy

i)

about

(time)

easy

j)

without

(connect)

moderate

k)

between

(compare)

easy

l)

except

(compare)

easy

m)

after

(time)

easy