Prepositional Phrase Hunt

Do you want to make your sentences more descriptive and interesting? By going on a Prepositional Phrase Hunt, you’ll learn how groups of words starting with prepositions add important details to writing. This playsheet helps you spot these phrases and understand how they work.

A prepositional phrase begins with a preposition like in, on, under, before, after, between, or with and ends with a noun. For example, in the sentence “The puppy slept under the blanket,” the phrase under the blanket shows where the puppy slept.

Through activities like circling prepositional phrases, underlining prepositions, and rewriting sentences with added details, you’ll practice identifying and using them. These exercises sharpen grammar skills and help you see how prepositional phrases give sentences depth.