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THE PHRASE EXERCISES
EXERCISE I: COPY AND PASTE THIS EXERCISE ON A WORD DOCUMENT. THEN UNDERLINE THE
PREPOSITIONAL PHRASES IN EACH SENTENCE BELOW.
1. One of the most famous oracle in
2. It was located in Apollo’s temple which was at
3. The temple, supposedly the center of the earth, was a
religious shrine for all of
4. The temple’s priestess inhaled vapors which rose from a pit, and then she went into a trance.
5. During the trance, she delivered messages from Apollo.
6. The term Delphian aptly describes a statement that can be interpreted in two different ways because of
predictions like this one.
EXERCISE II: WRITE DOWN ON THE ABOVE WORD DOCUMENT ALL OF THE PREPOSITIONAL PHRASE
FOUND ABOVE. NUMBER THEM. THEN TELL HOW EACH PHRASE WAS USED (ADJECTIVE OR ADVERB)
AND THE WORD IT MODIFIES
EXAMPLE: The dog in the house barked during the day.
1. in the house adjective phrase the dog
2.during the day adverb phrase barked
SAVE YOUR WORK. THEN
DROP A COPY OF IT IN MY HOMEWORK FILE LABELED “THE PHRASE’.
TAG YOUR WORK ‘LAST NAME-SECTION NUMBER-THE
PHRASE’.