General English Level 3 GELEV3 Unit 04 Topic 03.doc Examples 1. Tim's family owned a hotel. 2. The children had a good education . 3. Barry married Emily. 4. Frieda sold vegetables. 5. He travelled the world. 2. Prepositional phrases The magazine article says: Emily was born in 1948 and grew up in a small town… Her parents owned a restaurant in the town… The children also worked in the restaurant ..After she finished her nurse's training she worked in a large city hospital for several years… Emily is now one of the richest women in the world… In 1948, in a small town, for several years are prepositional phrases. A prepositional phrase is a group of words which gives extra information about the subject, verb and object. It tells us about when, where, how and why something happened. • Sometimes we can use more than one phrase in a sentence, for example, After she finished her nurse's training she worked in a large city hospital for several years. LOOK got married started school in 1953. after the holidays. I He She You We They worked stayed studied lived in a large city. for a long time. Examples 1. Sam was born in 1927 and died in 1999. 2. Do you live in a house or in an apartment? 3. Jill went to university for five years. 4. James rode to the shops on his bicycle. 5. They went to the movies on Saturday. 135 QUESTLANGUAGE