Use Pronouns in Prepositional Phrases
1 TRY OUT LANGUAGE
2 LEARN GRAMMAR
3 APPLY ON YOUR OWN
A prepositional phrase is a group of words. It begins with a preposition and ends with a noun or an object pronoun.
| EXAMPLES | The planets travel around the sun. |
| Stars and planets are interesting to me. | |
| I like to read about them. |
| Singular | Plural |
|---|---|
| me | us |
| you | you |
| him, her, it | them |
Practice Together
Say each pair of sentences. Add an object pronoun to the second sentence.
1. I need a book about an astronomer. Can you find one for ______?
2. Here is a book about Caroline Herschel. Do you know about ______?
3. I have heard of the astronomer William Herschel. Was Caroline related to ______?
4. She was his sister. She lived with ______ in England about 200 years ago.
5. He taught her about astronomy. This book is about both of ______.
Try It!
Read each pair of sentences. Write an object pronoun on a card. Then hold up the card as you say the second sentence with the object pronoun.
6. We studied the planets in class. I’m very interested in ______.
7. My favorite planet is Jupiter. I know a lot about ______.
8. Did you know that Jupiter has more than 60 moons? I can name some of them for ______.
9. Jupiter is the largest planet. Compared to ______, Earth looks tiny.
10. Let’s look at some images of Jupiter online. That will be fun for ______!
Jupiter is the fifth planet from the sun. The distant planet is 484 million miles from it.