Grammar and Language Workbook

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Grammar and Language Workbook, Grade 12
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Grammar
 Exercise 3
Underline each prepositional phrase, and circle its object.
After the movie we went to Yogi’s for pizza.
1. The biologist lived off the land and spent most of his life among the habitats of nature.
2. Abraham Lincoln’s sole surviving son Robert became a government official and lawyer for the
big industrial tycoons of the late nineteenth century. 
3. If they were not so late, we ourselves would have been on time.
4. She does volunteer work for her company.
5. After we stocked all of the shelves, we threw the empty boxes into the dumpster behind the
store.
6. Ride straight between the hills and down the valley.
7. The computer in the lab was purchased from the company that did our research.
8. Mr. Fischer will not retire until the end of the school year.
9. Please put the tennis balls beneath the rackets inside the storage cabinet.
10. We waited until the time when he arrived at our meeting place outside the science museum.
11. The article is a guide for people on a tight budget.
12. I walked through the crowded toy store with my little brother in tow.
13. Thousands of tourists attend the Smallwood Crafts Festival each year.
14. Dr. Como retired from his job at the hospital and is now at a mission in Argentina.
15. The recently relocated company provides jobs for several hundred people.
16. Looking at its long-term goals, I believe our company is headed in the right direction.
17. On the long flight home, Gaylene sat next to her state senator.
18. Yesterday, various small birds were singing near the cherry tree.

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