Directions: Identify the prepositions and their objects in each of the following sentences.
1. I like cookies in milk.
2. As I walked, I thought about school.
3. I knew I would see her in a minute.
4. He invited me to the party.
5. Above the trees, the sky looked like a blanket of stars.
6. I wonder if I’m going to like this new food from the restaurant.
13. Lobsters are large, green or gray, bottom-dwelling shellfish that live under the sea.
14. The people who fish for these creatures are hardy and very determined folk.
15. Using small, specially built boats and a number of crate-like traps made of wood, they go to work.
16. Lobster fishing in the United States has been practiced only during the last century; before that time people thought lobster was not good to eat.
17. For centuries, farmers used the plentiful lobsters as fertilizer for their gardens.
23. To catch lobsters, the fishers first lower traps with chunks of bait into the sea.
24. Then the fishers mark the location of colorful floats that identify the owners.
25. If the fishers are lucky, the lobster enters the trap by the part called the kitchen, tries to escape through another opening called the shark’s mouth, and then is trapped inside the section called the parlor.
26. Fishers call a lobster with only one claw a cull; one without any claws is called a pistol or a buffalo.
27. By law, undersized lobsters must be returned to the sea.
1. I like cookies in milk.
2. As I walked, I thought about school.
3. I knew I would see her in a minute.
4. He invited me to the party.
5. Above the trees, the sky looked like a blanket of stars.
6. I wonder if I’m going to like this new food from the restaurant.
13. Lobsters are large, green or gray, bottom-dwelling shellfish that live under the sea.
14. The people who fish for these creatures are hardy and very determined folk.
15. Using small, specially built boats and a number of crate-like traps made of wood, they go to work.
16. Lobster fishing in the United States has been practiced only during the last century; before that time people thought lobster was not good to eat.
17. For centuries, farmers used the plentiful lobsters as fertilizer for their gardens.
23. To catch lobsters, the fishers first lower traps with chunks of bait into the sea.
24. Then the fishers mark the location of colorful floats that identify the owners.
25. If the fishers are lucky, the lobster enters the trap by the part called the kitchen, tries to escape through another opening called the shark’s mouth, and then is trapped inside the section called the parlor.
26. Fishers call a lobster with only one claw a cull; one without any claws is called a pistol or a buffalo.
27. By law, undersized lobsters must be returned to the sea.