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The cat carefully crept across the kitchen floor and found the mouse digging through the cabinets.

How many prepositional phrases are in the sentence above?
A.
4
B.
2
C.
1
D.
3

User Asim K T
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the answer would be A : 4
User PorssiMies
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Answer: B: 2

Step 1: Lets look at this paragraph carefully,

The cat carefully crept across the kitchen floor and found the mouse digging through the cabinets.

Definition of Prepositional Phrase: modifying or around an object by taking action with it, examples: about, after, at, before, behind, by, during, for, from, in, of, over, past, to, under, up, with.

lets try and look for those related

Step 2: Lets see what we got,

The cat carefully crept across the kitchen floor and found the mouse digging through the cabinets.

Step 3: These two are prepositional phrases,

"Crept across the kitchen floor"

"Digging through the cabinets"

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