Printable Prepositional Phrases Worksheets
Prepositional phrase worksheets teach 3rd through 5th graders to identify phrases starting with a preposition and ending with an object. These printable practice pages build sentence diagramming confidence with answer keys.
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Find the prepositional phrase
Bracket the prepositional phrase
Find the prepositional phrase
Bracket phrases and count them
Object of the preposition
Bracket the phrase, underline its object
Object of the preposition
Draw arrows from preposition to object
Prepositional phrases as adjectives or adverbs
Add a phrase that describes the noun
Prepositional phrases as adjectives or adverbs
Add a phrase that describes the action
Prepositional phrases as adjectives or adverbs
Bracket the phrase, then classify it
Prepositional phrases as adjectives or adverbs
Pick a phrase to describe each noun
Add a prepositional phrase
Add a phrase that answers the prompt
Add a prepositional phrase
Move the phrase to the start
About Prepositional Phrases
What this skill is
A prepositional phrase begins with a preposition and ends with an object of the preposition (a noun or pronoun), including any modifiers in between (such as "under the wooden bridge" or "before dinner").
When children learn it
Identifying prepositional phrases and their objects is formally taught in 4th grade (CCSS L.4.1.e) and practiced in 5th grade to improve sentence complexity and comma usage.
Teaching Tips
- Have your child place brackets around prepositional phrases on their worksheet: [under the bed]. Explain that you can temporarily remove the bracketed words, and the remaining sentence still makes complete sense. This proves how the phrase acts as a removable detail unit.
Common Mistakes
- Stopping the phrase too early and omitting the modifiers between the preposition and its object noun.
- Mistaking the object of the preposition for the subject of the sentence, leading to subject-verb agreement errors.
- Omitting the comma after long introductory prepositional phrases that begin a sentence.