Question

Determine the use of the prepositional phrase in the following sentence.

Terry is running up the hill.

adjective
adverb

Answer 1

@Smarty99

Answer 2

Can you find the preposition?

Answer 3

nope

Answer 4

Okay well what do you think is the definition of a preposition?

Answer 5

a member of a set of words used in close connection with, and usually before, nouns and pronouns to show their relation to another part of a clause. An example is "off" in "He fell off his bike" and "What did he fall off?"

Answer 6

That is the definition. So do you think the noun is Terry or Hill?

Answer 7

Terry?

Answer 8

I believe that it is actually hill. So the ______verb_______word before the noun_________noun____________ so it would be /up the hill.

Answer 9

What grade are you in? I am in AP Lang and this seems quite challenging. (Probably b/c I don't work much with prepositional phrases.)

Answer 10

im doing credit retrieval for 9th grade

Answer 11

Ahhh fun! Haha.