Can you identify all the prepositional phrases in my poem? I need it for homework!

Question

Please tell me every prepositional phrase I have put in this poem. I can't seem to figure out prepositions and it would help if you could identify each and every prepositional phrase because I need to highlight all of them for an assignment. Thank you!

I am the son of a survivor and a believer

I wonder how my father survived his double pneumonia

I hear his chances of living were very low

I see my father as a miracle

I want people to believe God exists and protects

I am the son of a survivor and a believer

I pretend that seeing him in that hospital bed for 2 months didn't bother me

I feel like God has kept him alive for a reason

I am touched by the miracle God has provided to my family

I worry he will become sick again

I cry every time I think about him in that hospital bed

I am the son of a survivor and a believer

I understand that not everyone experiences life changing miracles

I say to people that God is the only reason my father is alive

I dream of being half the man that he is one day

I try my best to show God that I am beyond thankful

I hope everyone can come to believe in and love God

I am the son of a survivor and a believer

Answer 1

Dear Bob,

I hope you were able to finish up your assignment... but for future reference, prepositions are words that "pre- position" other items...

aboard

about

above

across

after

against

along

among

around

at

And so on. :) There are plenty of lists out there on the interwebs (and some you just have to memorize), but some of the most common are as follows:

at

in

to

off

on

of

for

from

around

about

over

Additionally, keep in mind that a PREposition has to come before something. The something is called the "object" of the preposition. For example, in your poem, you said, "I am touched by the miracle God has provided to my family." There are two prepositions there: by and to. What were you touched by? The miracle. To whom did God provide the miracle? Your family. So, "by the miracle" is a prepositional phrase, with by as the preposition and the miracle as the object of the preposition. "To my family" is also a prepositional phrase, with to as the preposition and my family as the object of the preposition.

Hope this helps!

Answer 2

Prepositional phrases are groups of words that begin with a preposition.

For example in the first sentence:

I am the son of a survivor and a believer

of is the preposition, so of a survivor and a believer is the prepositional phrase