Prepositional phrases can also act as adverbs. When they act as adverbs, they modify verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs. In this section, we’ll only diagram prepositional phrases that modify verbs.
Example: The rabbit hopped through the pretty garden.
- Has Lucy been reading at the library?
- I ran around the absolutely beautiful city.
- Those blue birds chirped endlessly into the night.
- The plane flew above the puffy, white clouds.
- Who has been sleeping in my bed?
Now you’ll learn how to diagram adjectival prepositional phrases that modify the object of the preposition from another prepositional phrase!
Example: The blue birds in the trees above my house were chirping.
Diagram the following sentences by placing the adjectival prepositional phrases under the noun or pronoun that they modify.
- The hairy dog sat in the corner of the room.
- The cookie dough is in the back of the fridge.
- I shop at the grocery store on Main Street.
- Which of the pages in this book ripped?
- Can you fit between the roots of this tree?