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 Finding Prepositional Phrases
Practice Exercise # 5

Directions: Place parentheses ( ) around every prepositional phrase.
 

The text is:
      And one particular four-year-old prayed, "And forgive us our trash baskets as we forgive those who put trash in our baskets."
Work your way through the text one sentence at a time. 

Sentence #1

Identify all the prepositional phrases.
       And one particular four-year-old prayed, "And forgive us our trash baskets as we forgive those who put trash (in our baskets)."
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