- After he had started school, we had started going to reading hour at the
library. - If we known about story hour, we would have started sooner.
- Manny and I had shopped at Wizardry for many years before we had met
the owner. - Before Lise has climbed to the diving board, she visualizes her fi rst dive.
- As we had walked to the graduation march, the music started.
- Marian will visit us four times before the year is over.
- After we had watched four hours of baseball, we had learned that a football
special was on simultaneously. - He will have failed before he will have realized his mistake in not working
harder.
Prepositional Phrases
As you learned in Chapter 2, prepositions link or relate nouns, pronouns, and
phrases to other words in a sentence. The word or phrase the preposition introduces
is called the prepositional phrase. In the phrase, you fi nd the object of the preposi-
tion. You can fi nd a list of common prepositions in Chapter 2.
To write sentences correctly, you need to have one very important fact in mind:
the subject of a verb will never be part of a prepositional phrase. A prepositional
phrase begins with a preposition, such as in,on,at,between, or among, and ends
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