Prepositional phrases

Short Answer Questions about Sentences with Prepositional Phrases.

1. What is the prepositional phrase in this sentence:
The hat on the top shelf is mine.

2. What is the prepositional phrases in this sentence:
Ronald is sitting behind the third base umpire.

3. What question is answered by the prepostional phrase in this sentence:
We will be traveling by train.

4. What adjective question is answered by the prepositional phrase in this sentence: The first boy in the correct costume will be chosen.

5. How many prepostional phrases are in this sentence:
Sally is sitting under the largest flower in the whole garden.

6. What noun ends the prepositional phrase in this sentence:
Rhonda's father is from some foreign country.

7. What pronoun ends the prepositional phrase in this sentence:
Roberto's honor is very important to him.

8. List the prepositions in this sentence, in order. Separate them with a comma and a space: After the dance, all three of us will go to the diner on the corner.

9. True or False: A prepositional phrase can answer an adjective question or an adverb question.

10. True or False: A prepositional phrase can never modify a verb.

11. Which of the following is not an adverb question: When? Where? What kind? To what extent?

12. Which of the following is not an adjective question: Whose? How? Which one? How many?

13. What is the 2nd prepositional phrase in this sentence: Run away from the bees from the broken hive.

14. What is the word modified by the prepositional phrase in this sentence:
Hockey is played in the North.

15. What is the word modified by the prepositional phrase in this sentence:
May we eat the cake with the pink icing?