Language Arts Grade Five

Unit Eight, Lesson Three: Prepositions

  1. cake
  2. lake
  3. shake
  4. brake
  5. fake
  6. stake
  7. period
  8. table
  9. rows
  10. column
  1. elements
  2. chemical
  3. property
  4. express
  5. pouch
  6. mail
  7. carried
  8. stage
  9. post
  10. office
Prepositions

Prepositons are sometimes called location words, but they can help to explain other kinds or relationships between words. Here are a few examples: 


  Jill laughed during the movie.

  The peach rolled until it hit the wall.

  They haven't eaten since the last stop.
As you can see prepositions can also be used to help explain when something happens. Prepositions which help to explain when include: 

	during		until		since

	after		before		following
Here are a few more commonly used prepositions: 

	behind		between		since

	to		underneath	upon

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