Sniffy Recites Your Weekly Grammar Fact

Preposition

A preposition is a word that relates a noun or a pronoun to some other word in the sentence. For example, Sniffy went to the ice cream store. Or how about this sentence: Sniffy eats with a bib on because he is messy. In those sentences "to" and "with" relate the noun, Sniffy (that's me), to other words in the sentences. It is true that I often go to the ice cream store, but I never, never have to wear a bib and I resent the implication that I am so messy that I—whoops!—I just dumped my chocolate shake all over my bi—I mean my shiny, furry body.

Anyway,—boy that stuff is sticky, it's all between my toes—anyway, back when I was in school my teacher used to say that a preposition was anything a rabbit could do to a hill. It could go to the hill, under the hill, behind the hill, beside the hill, in the hill, over the hill, past the hill, below the hill, around the hill and lots of other things too.

Anyway,—boy, I need to wash my feet—anyway, see if you can find the prepositions in the sentences below. Just click the word to see if you are correct. Seeeeeeeeeeeee ya later.

Sniffy went to the store.

The dog ate with the cat.

Sniffy hid under the bed last Halloween.

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