Question

Identify and use prepositional phrases:
The rabbits hopped ______.
a) through the garden
b) hungry
c) Happy
d) none of the above

Answer 1

Hint: Prepositional phrases are a group of words containing prepositions that lack either a verb or a subject.

Complete answer:
We know that prepositional phrases always have two basic parts, which are: object and preposition. According to the rules of grammar, prepositions are mostly followed by objects. Once we recall the grammatical rules, we need to identify the option which has both, preposition and the object. One by one, we will check all the options given to us to find out which option has an object and a preposition, to make the prepositional phrase.

Option ‘a’, through the garden, is a phrase wherein the word through is clearly a preposition while the word garden is the object for the used preposition.

In option b, the word hungry is an adjective, moreover, a single word can not be constituted as a phrase.

Option c, happy, is also an adjective. If we try to put this word in the blank, we see that the sentence does not make any sense.

Hence, option a is the correct answer for the question as it is a prepositional phrase and since we have found the correct alternative, option d, is the incorrect answer as well.

Note:
You may try the hit and trial method for this question, as in, putting up each option one by one in the blank and analyzing which one forms the correct and meaningful sentence structure.