Use these preposition phrases in your own sentences, as an adjective or as an adverb.
Use each phrase below in two sentences, once adjectivally, so that it qualifies a noun (e.g. to the town → The road to the town was flooded), and once adverbially, so that it qualifies a verb (e.g. Bob walked to the town). You may like to use the words indicated underneath each phrase.
1 At the corner.
Shop (n). Wait (vb).
2 Under the floorboards.
Strongbox (n). Look (vb).
3 By Charles Dickens.
Story (n). Write (vb).
Adapted from an exercise in Exercises 12-13 (1933) by NL Clay.
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