Prepositional Phrases for Kids Grammar Lesson

today we are going to learn about prepositional phrases do you know what those are prepositional phrases you're about to understand them they are very cool they are very very cool prepositional phrases are incredible once you know them everyone's gonna be like what you know what that is and you'll be like yep yep prepositional phrases got it watched the video before we learn that we have to answer this question are prepositions we can't know what prepositional phrase is without knowing what prepositions are well prepositions are connecting words it's pretty simple they're connecting words prepositions are connecting words that act like bridges like this bridge wow what cool bridge wooden bridge bridge connects from one side to the next and in similar way prepositions are connecting words they're like bridges in the word kingdom mr whiskers what are you doing up right now you're supposed to be sleeping you know you you're supposed to you know you're supposed to stay up during the night you know and sleep during the day you know and don't know what's going on with your internal clock we're in the middle of talking about prepositions how prepositions are like bridges they're like the bridges of the word kingdom they connect they're connecting words they're great words and i'm in the middle of the review listen if you'll just hold up we'll play with special bouncy ball okay and and the little thing with the with the string you know and the little feather you know you'll think you're attacking bird okay can you just wait just moment so prepositions are like bridges that connect noun to the rest of the sentence for example we went fishing with ben with is the preposition because it's connecting then to the rest of the sentence we went fishing with ben it's connecting ben with the idea of going fishing we went fishing with ben with is connecting word bridge the word with is preposition now sometimes preposition is at the beginning of sentence but it still comes before noun connecting that noun to the rest of the sentence look at this example after dinner she read book the word after is preposition it's connecting the word dinner the noun to the rest of the sentence she read book after dinner she read book it's still connecting word it's still bridge word it's preposition even though it's at the beginning of the sentence prepositions can show things like time place and movement cool yeah they're really interesting words that can do whole lot if you want to learn more about prepositions we have video that's pretty cool that talks about prepositions in more detail after this video you'll see button that you can click to go straight to this video and we'll share more about the different types of prepositions and things like that but for now what you need to know is prepositions are connecting words okay so what is prepositional phrase we know that preposition is bridge word connecting word but what is prepositional phrase well prepositional phrase is group of words that begins with the preposition and ends with something called the object of the preposition remember the sentence from earlier we went fishing with ben remember the word with is the preposition because it's connecting the noun which is the word ben to the rest of the sentence now this is so cool do you see this noun that comes after the preposition this word ben this is called the object of the preposition the noun that follows the preposition is always called the object of the preposition now remember prepositional phrase begins with the preposition and ends with the object of the preposition so in our sentence the prepositional phrase is with ben with ben with is the preposition so it starts the phrase and the object of the preposition ends the phrase so the prepositional phrase only has how many words yeah two words the prepositional phrases with ben remember prepositional phrase begins with the preposition and ends with the object of the preposition okay let's give this one try they traveled to the beach they traveled to the beach well the word to is the preposition here it's the connecting word that's connecting beach to the rest of the sentence they traveled okay which word is the object of the preposition yeah just say the word uh-huh yeah beach beach is the object of the preposition it's the noun that is following the preposition that means the prepositional phrase is to the beach there are three words in this prepositional phrase remember prepositional phrase begins with the preposition and ends with the object of the preposition prepositions are like bridges that connect noun to the rest of the sentence sometimes preposition appears at the beginning of sentence followed by the object of the preposition which is just the noun that follows the preposition and then the rest of the sentence look at this sentence outside the window the birds are singing outside the window is the prepositional phrase the word outside starts the phrase out because it is the preposition and the word window is the object of the preposition ending the prepositional phrase pretty simple wouldn't it be funny if the birds outside the window sing where these let me go my goodness pelicans are awesome and they actually don't sing they just make sounds like and if you don't believe me listen look it up look it up online all right listen to the sounds they make let's get back to prepositional phrases we're going to give one final example and in this one the preposition is more in the middle of the sentence instead of at the beginning they swim during the summer they swim during the summer during the summer is the prepositional phrase during is the preposition so it starts the prepositional phrase and summer is the object of the preposition ending the prepositional phrase so the prepositional phrase has three words during the summer okay we're in space well prepositional phrase is group of words that begins with the preposition and ends with the object of the preposition wow there you go prepositional phrase now you know what that means hey thanks for watching we hope you had good time and learned lot about prepositional phrases and we hope you'll join us again soon because we don't want the learning to end here