Distance Education for Elementary Schools
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USING PREPOSITION AND PREPOSITIONAL PHRASE
GRADE V
USING PREPOSITION AND PREPOSITIONAL PHRASE
There are words that can be used to show the relationship
between a noun and a pronoun and other words in the
sentence.
In this module, you will learn what these words are and how
they are used as preposition and prepositional phrase
Do you know who discovered the Philippines? Bet you do. In this story you are going to read and find out who discovered America.
DISCOVERY OF AMERICA
Columbus was born Christoforo Colombo in Genoa, Italy. Not much is known of his early life except that he was poor and that he began to make sea voyages when he was quite young. For a while he lived in Lisbon, Portugal, where he married the daughter of a navigator. Columbus studied charts and read about navigation and instruments. When he made up his mind to look for a westward route to the East, he tried to have interest in the City of Genoa in his bold plan but failed. Columbus then tried the King of Portugal, King Henry VII of England and finally King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain who agreed to send the expedition after eight years when he pledged her jewels to help pay for it.
Columbus sailed with 100 men in his three small ships. The prevailing trade winds took them in southwesternly directions. His sailors became frightened and wanted to turn back and some of them even threatened to throw Columbus overboard if he refused to return. Nevertheless, the ships sailed on and the men got encouraged when they saw birds and floating grasses in the sea. That October night they sighted the island named San Salvador which means “Holy Savior”.
After Columbus’ voyages, many sailors were sent out to new colonies. One of them was a merchant named Amerigo Vespucci who found Brazil and Rio de Janeiro. The two colonies came to be called America. When Columbus came to America, he called the natives Indians because he thought he had reached the Indies.
Because of Columbus’ achievements, Queen Isabella made him a member of Spanish nobility and Admiral of the Sea, and Viceroy of all Spain’s land in the west. Columbus died in 1506 a poor and unhappy man.
Many years after the discovery of America, all the settlements were made along the coast and they live in logs and cabins and produced crops for their foods.
Let’s find out if you understood the selection.
1. Who discovered America?
2. What is the nationality of the discoverer?
3. After whom was America named?
4. How are the early natives called?
In the story are some words called prepositions.
through under
across without
from above
behind within
before into
They are words used before nouns or pronouns to show its relation to other parts of the sentence. Read the following examples taken from the selection.
through the ocean under cloudy skies
across the sea without friends
from Spain above all
behind the woods within the skies
before day break into the water
Exercise 1
Pick out all the prepositional phrases in each sentence. Write the answer in your notebook.
START NOW.
1. Defeat may be victory in disguise.
2. Truth lies at the bottom of the well.
3. The sky is full of stars.
4. Overcome evil with good.
5. Mischief comes from idleness.
6. Hit your wagon to the stars.
7. She was curious to see what is behind the door.
8. Tell him the story about the voyage.
9. The valley is between two tall mountains.
10. The captain led the colonist against the army.
Good, you are now ready to do the activities. Exercise 2
Practice Time
REMEMBER
A preposition is a word that shows relationship between a noun or a pronoun and other words in the sentence.
A preposition, its object and any modifiers of the object make up a prepositional phrase.
Sometimes, a preposition is not followed by its object which may be a noun or pronoun. Sometimes an article comes between as in:
within the skies
into the water
A. Identify the prepositional phrases in the following paragraphs. Write them in your notebook. There are 17 prepositional phrases. See if you can get all.
1. SPACE PROBES
During the early times, astronomers studied the heavenly bodies in the sky. They did it through telescopes. Today, scientists can study space from space itself. It is now possible to send spacecrafts with robots into space. To study the target heavenly body, a space probe carries with it cameras and other kinds of instruments. Then it sends informations back to earth by radio. In 1997, a robot spacecraft named Sojourner landed on planet Mars. This shoebox-size spacecraft sent pictures of the surface of the planet to the earth.
2.
A 39-year old adventurer is recorded as the first Japanese to reach the North Pole. Hyoichi Kono told supporters through wireless radio after arriving at the North Pole. Kono became the third person to walk to the pole. He arrived at 6:40 a.m. Kono sometimes fell through ice. Sometimes, he found the ice he was walking on swept away by currents during the adventure. Kono had participated in other adventures before this one.
B. Pick out the prepositions in the following sentences. Write them in your notebook.
1. Children roam around Enchanted Kingdom.
2. The little kids struggled up the horses in the merry-go-round.
3. My brother rode in the balloon ride.
4. I sat across my mother in the swan ride.
5. My sister sat behind me when we had the log jump.
6. Without a little child, one cannot ride on the dinosaur’s egg.
8. The bump cars are among the best rides we had.
9. Food is not allowed inside the Enchanted Kingdom.
10. That is why we had to eat before we entered the place.
C. Read the paragraph silently. Look for the errors in the use of prepositions and prepositional phrase. Check the errors and then read the paragraph aloud to someone at home.
There is definitely clean living over the South Pole. A scientist there doesn’t mind the cold or the thin air unpleasant for people but good for astronomy. The low humidity gives astronomers a clear window on the universe. Through special telescopes, the scientists study invisible portions of the electromagnetic spectrum. These portions are called microwaves. They are emitted for cold clouds of gas that may one day become stars. The south pole atmosphere is exceptionally clean. This makes global monitoring of pollutants easier.
D. What is an ocean laboratory? How is it different from a space
station or laboratory? As you read about one below, choose the correct preposition that will complete each sentence. Do it in your notebook.
A. Let’s find out how well you remember what you have studied.
Read the paragraph below and pick out seven prepositional phrases used in the paragraph.
“I opened the door and saw at my feet a beautiful Indian rug. Its color were those of earth and clay.
These colors were picked up by the brown chair just beyond where a cat lays sleeping on a red brown pillow. At the back of the chair was a window through which sunlight comes in and shines warmly on the little cat.
B. Pick out all the prepositional phrases in the sentences.
Write your answer in your notebook.
1. He ran down the road.
2. He was absent from the class for a week. 3. Nights in the jungle are scary.
4. He had a bump on his head and a gash in one foot. 5. After lunch, I fell asleep in my chair.
6. A friend of mine had her dog in the car when she decided to go through an automatic car.
7. The “Flight” is one of the most dramatic stories in the Bible.
8. What does it mean to be behind the times.
9. She feels she is on top of the world.
10. She stopped off the sidewalk.
D. A couplet is a two-line sentence with rhymes. Complete the couplet below with appropriate prepositional phrases. Choose your answer from the box. Write the couplet on a piece of paper and recite the couplet infront of your teacher when you see her/him.
towards the moon up in the sky
without you through the clouds
on the stage after dark
out the space around the tree
with motion and grace over the ocean
1. Astronauts _________________________.
____________________ they race.
2. Birds ___________________________.
____________________ they fly.
3. Dancers _________________________.
____________________ they pace.
4. Bats fly _________________________.
____________________ they park.
5. ____________________ I sailed.
____________________ I failed.
Key to Corrections
STUDY TIME
Comprehension
1. Amerigo Vespucci
2. Spain
3. After Amerigo Vespucci
4. Indians
PRACTICE TIME
Exercise 1
1. in disguise 6. to the stars
2. at the bottom of the well 7. to see behind the door
3. of stars 8. about the voyage
4. with good 9. between too tall mountains
5. from idleness 10. against the army
Exercise 2
A.
1) during the early times into the space
In the sky with it cameras
through telescope back to earth
from space on the planet
to the earth of the surface
2) to reach the North Pole during the adventure
through wireless radio before this one
B.
1. around the Enchanted Kingdom
2. up the horses in the merry-go-round
3. in the balloon ride
4. across my mother, in the swan ride
5. behind me
6. without a little child, on the dinosaur’s egg
7. beside my nephew, to ride on
8. among the best rides
9. inside the Enchanted Kingdom
10. before we entered
C.
There is definitely clean living over the South Pole. A scientist there
doesn’t mind the cold or the thin air unpleasant for people but good for astronomy. The low humidity gives astronomers a clear window of the universe. Through special telescope, the Scientist study invisible portions of the electromagnetic spectrum. These portions are called microwave. They are emitted into the cold gas that may one day become stars.
D.
1. under
2. in
3. for
4. with
5. through
TEST YOURSELF
A.
1) at my feet on the little cat
of earth and clay through which
by the brown chair of the chair
B. 1. down the road
2. from the class, for a week 3. in the jungle
4. on his head, in one foot 5. after lunch, in my chair
6. of mine, in the car, to go, through an automobile 7. in the Bible
8. behind times
9. on top of the world
10. off the sidewall
C. Directions
D. Writing
1. Astronauts out the space.
Up in the sky they race.
2. Birds up in the sky.
Around the tree they fly.
3. Dancers with motion and grace.
On the stage they pace.
4. Bats fly after dark.
Through the clouds they park.
5. Towards the moon, I sailed.
