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Where Is Biscuit? A Prepositional Phrase Hunt

Grade 4 grammar practice finding, forming and using prepositional phrases while a family searches their apartment for a lost class hamster.

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Aligned toL.4.1.e

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  • 1 Common Core standard
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  • 11 questions
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Format
Interactive · Printable
Grade
Grade 4
Subject
ELA
Question types
Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Matching, Circle the answer, Sorting, Short answer

About this worksheet

What students practice

  • Students identify prepositions and prepositional phrases in sentences.
  • Students tell whether a prepositional phrase shows where, when, how or which one.
  • Students form prepositional phrases and use them to add detail to sentences.

How to use

Go over the definition and examples in the first box together, then let students work on their own. Ask them to read each prepositional phrase aloud and say what question it answers.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

L.4.1.e

Form and use prepositional phrases.

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Where Is Biscuit? A Prepositional Phrase Hunt

Find, build and use prepositional phrases.

Find prepositional phrases

A prepositional phrase begins with a preposition and ends with a noun or pronoun. Some prepositions are in, on, under, behind, near, after, before and with. Examples: under the bed, after lunch, with a flashlight.

Noor brought her class hamster, Biscuit, home for the weekend. On Saturday morning, the cage door was open and Biscuit was gone! Noor and her brother Theo searched the whole apartment. Every sentence on this sheet is about their hunt.
1.
This sentence has two prepositions. Underline both of them.

Noorlookedbehindthesofaandunderapillow.

2.
Is each group of words a prepositional phrase? Sort them.
a tiny squeakunder the sinknear the front doorlooked everywhereafter schoola hungry hamstervery sleepyinside a sock
Prepositional phraseNot a prepositional phrase
3.
Read the sentence. Which group of words is the prepositional phrase?
The sleepy hamster curled up inside a rain boot.
  • A. a rain boot
  • B. inside a rain boot
  • C. the sleepy hamster
  • D. curled up

What does the phrase tell?

A prepositional phrase can tell where, when, how or which one.

4.
Does each prepositional phrase tell where or when? Sort the phrases.
inside a slipperafter dinnerduring the nightbeneath the bedbehind the curtainsat seven o'clockinto the closetbefore bedtime
Tells whereTells when
5.
Match each sentence to what its bold prepositional phrase tells.
  1. Theo brushed Biscuit with a soft brush.
  2. The cage sits beside the heater.
  3. The hamster with long whiskers is Biscuit.
  4. Noor read to Biscuit until bedtime.
  1. A. tells when
  2. B. tells which one
  3. C. tells how
  4. D. tells where
6.
Which sentence uses a prepositional phrase to tell when?
  • A. Noor searched the closet carefully.
  • B. Noor searched the closet before breakfast.
  • C. Noor searched the big, messy closet.
  • D. Noor and Theo searched the closet.

Build and use prepositional phrases

Use prepositional phrases to add details to sentences.

7.
Put the words in order to make a prepositional phrase. Start with the preposition. Write the whole phrase in the blank.

(rug / the / under) Biscuit was not  .
(sock / inside / striped / a) Theo found a sunflower seed  .
(the / behind / plant / tall) Noor heard a squeak  .

8.
Write a preposition from the word bank in each blank. The clue before each sentence tells what the preposition means. Two words in the bank will not be used.
Word bank: during · across · behind · toward · above · between

Clue: at the back of. Noor checked   the couch.
Clue: in the middle of two things. The cage sits   the bed and the desk.
Clue: higher than. A shelf hangs   the cage.
Clue: from one side to the other. Seeds were scattered   the floor.

9.
Which sentence joins these two sentences by using a prepositional phrase?
Noor found a seed. It was next to the radiator.
  • A. Noor found a seed, and it was there.
  • B. Noor found the radiator and a seed.
  • C. Noor found a seed next to the radiator.
  • D. Noor found a seed it was next to the radiator.
10.
Biscuit chewed a hole in a box. Which sentence uses a prepositional phrase to tell which box?
  • A. Biscuit chewed the small cardboard box.
  • B. Biscuit chewed the box that held crayons.
  • C. Biscuit chewed that old, empty box.
  • D. Biscuit chewed the box under the desk.
11.
Write a sentence about a place where a lost hamster might hide. Use a prepositional phrase that tells where. Underline the phrase.

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