CBSE Class 5 English Prepositional Phrases Worksheet

A prepositional phrase is a group of words that begins with a preposition and ends with a noun or a pronoun called the object of the preposition.

The Adirondack Mountains are in northern New York. (New York is the object of the preposition in.)

I will mark the map for you. (You is the object of the preposition for.)

• Exercise 1 Draw a line under the prepositional phrase or phrases in each sentence.

People from countries around the world visit Yosemite each year.

1. Yosemite, in central California, is one of the best-known national parks.

2. It became a national park through the efforts of naturalist John Muir.

3. Yosemite National Park is known for its waterfalls, for its mountains and domes, and for its giant sequoia trees.

4. During the Ice Age, glaciers carved the Yosemite Valley.

5. Small side valleys, also formed by glaciers, have rivers at their bases.

6. These rivers spill over the sides of the mountains in spectacular waterfalls.

7. At 2,435 feet, Yosemite Falls is the highest waterfall in North America.

8. The water in Yosemite Creek spills over the edge in three falls.

9. Two of Yosemite’s natural wonders are called El Capitán and Half Dome.

10. El Capitán is the world’s largest piece of exposed granite.

11. Half Dome is a piece of granite that looks like a gumdrop cut in half.

12. The Sierra Nevadas are one huge piece of granite.

13. The park contains three separate groves of giant sequoia trees.

14. Among these groves, the Mariposa Grove of Big Trees is the most famous.

15. The largest tree in the park, the Grizzly Giant, is 3,800 years old.

16. According to historians, the name Yosemite means “grizzly bear.”

• Exercise 2 Draw one line under each preposition and two lines under its object.

Naturalists like John Muir left messages for people.

1. John Muir was born in Dunbar, Scotland, in 1838.

2. He was a boy when his family moved to Wisconsin in 1849.

3. When he was a young man, he walked a thousand miles from the Ohio River to the Gulf Coast.

4. Muir studied geology at a university in Wisconsin.

5. There he heard debates about the formation of the Yosemite Valley.

6. He was thirty years old when he first went to California in 1868.

7. Upon his arrival, John Muir fell in love with the land.

8. He devoted his life to the study of nature.

9. He believed erosion from glaciers caused the formation of the Yosemite Valley.

10. Muir did many studies of the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range.

11. In the 1890s, John Muir started the Sierra Club.

12. This club has been active in conservation efforts for a century.

13. John Muir was a friend of Theodore Roosevelt.

14. Teddy Roosevelt was president of the United States from 1901 to 1908.

15. In 1903 Roosevelt and Muir spent a night in Yosemite camping underneath the stars.

16. They listened to sounds of water tumbling down sheer cliffs.

17. After a campfire meal, they slept among the giant sequoias.

18. Muir wanted the valley preserved for all people.

19. Through the efforts of John Muir and with the support of Theodore Roosevelt, the valley became part of Yosemite National Park.

20. Roosevelt’s administration made great efforts toward conservation.