ABSTRACT
Armed with knowledge of prepositions, students can practice forming prepositional phrases and ultimately applying them to their writing. Writers use prepositional phrases to add detail to their work, expanding on basic sentences so they provide readers with more information. The prepositional phrase “from the kitchen” adds important detail and imagery to the text. With that phrase, the sentence allows the reader to clearly understand the action in the sentence. Ms. Walker nods vigorously and builds off the student’s response, explaining to the class that changing the prepositional phrase could state that the action happened somewhere else or even at a different time. Prepositional phrases can add detail to any genre of writing—short stories, poems, persuasive essays, and informational reports can all benefit from them. Many kinds of texts, ranging from picture books to novels, contain prepositional phrases.
