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Read the sentence.

The colonist stood up before throwing a snowball into the crowd of soldiers.

What are the objects of the underlined prepositions in the sentence?


colonist; snowball

crowd; soldiers

stood; snowball

stood; throwing

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Crowd; Soldiers

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The underlined prepositions in the sentence are "into" and "of."

Answer: B) Crowd; soldiers.

Step-by-step explanation: a preposition is a word governing, and usually preceding, a noun or pronoun and expressing a relation to another word or element in the clause. The object of a preposition is a noun, noun phrase, or pronoun that follows a preposition and completes its meaning. In the given sentence, the object of the preposition "into" is "crowd" and the object of the preposition "of" is "soldiers" so the correct answer is option B.

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