Question

Select the four prepositional phrases.

"You are getting ahead of yourself," Dad responded when I asked him to buy some cucumber seedlings at the garden store. "First you should read about their preferred environment, and then identify an ideal spot in the garden."

Answer 1

The four prepositional phrases in the sentence are 'at the garden store', 'about their preferred environment', 'in the garden', and 'ahead of yourself'.

Step-by-step explanation:

The four prepositional phrases in the given sentence are:

1. at the garden store
2. about their preferred environment
3. in the garden
4. ahead of yourself

These phrases begin with prepositions (at, about, in, and ahead of) and provide additional information about the verbs or nouns in the sentence. Prepositional phrases act as adverbials, adjectives, or nouns in a sentence.