Prepositional Phrases

Expanding Sentences #5

Worksheet Description

This worksheet is focused on enhancing students’ ability to expand sentences by incorporating prepositional phrases. It presents a series of simple sentences that are structurally incomplete and require additional context. The task for students is to add a prepositional phrase to each sentence, which provides information about location, time, or other relationships. Through this exercise, students learn to add depth and detail to basic statements, transforming them into more descriptive and informative sentences.

The worksheet teaches students how prepositional phrases function to add clarity and detail to a sentence. By prompting them to think about where, when, or how the actions in the sentences are happening, it helps students practice the use of prepositions in context. This activity is aimed at enhancing their grammatical skills and their ability to create more vivid and fully realized sentences. Overall, it develops their writing by encouraging more complex sentence structures and a greater understanding of how different parts of speech work together.