English grammar 9 prepositional phrases adjectives

2. Prepositional
PhrasesActing
asAdjectives
Do you remember?
Prepositional phrases can act as
adverbs?
They can act as adjectives as well.
Identify the prepositional phrase in the
following sentence.
“The birds were
singing in the old oak
tree”.

3. Prepositional
Phrases
What the phrase is doing?
Can we rewrite the sentence so the
prespositional phrase is at the
beginning?

4. Prepositional
PhrasesActing
Adjectives
The birds in the old oak tree were
singing.
In this sentence, what is the phrase
describing?

5. Prepositional
Phrases acting
asAdjectives
It is no longer describing the verb:
instead, it is doing the job of an
adjective, describing the birds by
telling us which ones were singing.
Similarly, in a sentene like “The
bird with blue spots were singing”.
The prepositional phrase tells us
what kind of birds were singing.

6. Spelling List 9
/cious/
graciously, conscious, viciously,
unconscious, semi-precious,
suspiciously, malicious, atrocious,
luscious, vivacious, tenacious,
ferociously, audacious, auspicious,
officious, voracious, precocious,
subconscious