Phrase Exercise

Grade 8

 

 

Copy and paste the follow exercise in a word document. Underline the prepositional phrases in each sentence below. List the phrase in each sentence as shown below and after each phrase write how it is being used in the sentence—as an adjective phrase or an adverb phrase. Save your work on your flash drive and then print out a hard copy to bring to class.

 

EXAMPLE:    His glass of milk was not filled to the brim.

                        of milk-adj

                        to the brim-adv

 

1. For more than a thousand years people believed the ‘the earth lies in the middle of the heavens’.

 

2. This theory was set forth by the Greek astronomer Ptolemy.

 

3. During the sixteenth century, however, Copernicus demonstrated the conflicting theory about the earth’s position in the universe.

 

4. Copernicus studied the movements of the planets and the stars and published his radical view that the earth actually orbits round the sun.

 

5. His theory created a conflict between religion and science and challenged the belief that human beings were at the core of creation.