Expanding Sentences With Prepositional Phrases

Here are sample answers to the sentence-expanding exercise on page one. Keep in mind that countless versions of each sentence are possible.

1. The students laughed at the monkey on a scooter.


2. The man tripped over his own feet.


3. Visitors from the Bizarro world arrived yesterday.


4. The candles on the handles of my bicycle flickered.


5. Gus hid the candy bar in a dirty sock.


6. Last night I watched a YouTube video about green kangaroos.


7. Sid sat in a tub of Jell-O with his cat.


8. The teacher spoke to the principal about a pay raise.


9. The spaceship from Pluto landed in the desert.


10. Jenny stood on the roof of the garage, raised her Super Soaker water gun, and aimed it at her little brother below.

If you had any problems completing this exercise, review the guidelines and examples on these pages:

• Adding Prepositional Phrases to the Basic Sentence Unit
• Arranging Prepositional Phrases

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