during the long afternoon, daryl search for his car keys what is the object of a proposition in this sentence?

Question

during the long afternoon,Daryl search for his car keys. He searched under the bed, beneath the sofa cushions, and inside his trouser pocket
what would be the word that represents an object of a proposition

Answer 1

bed
trouser pocket
sofa cushions

Think of most prepositions like this--Picture a house and a mouse. The mouse can go over it , under it, in it, on top of it... That will help you out

Answer 2

You can eliminate "during the long afternoon" since its a prepositional phrase. The subject is daryl, the verb is searched, and what is daryl searching for? KEYS, the answer is keys. It is not the object of the preposition because the object of the prepositions are bed, cushions, pocket

Answer 3

Okay, firstly you need to capitalise the appropriate parts of your sentences, use the right tenses and know that the part of speech you mean is 'preposition'.

Your sentence should read as follows:
"During the long afternoon, Darryl searched for his car keys. He searched under the bed, beneath the sofa cushions and inside his trouser pocket."

A preposition is a function word that typically occurs before a noun or a noun phrase, and indicates the relation of that noun or noun phrase to a verb, an adjective, or another noun or noun phrase. A preposition usually indicates the temporal (time), spatial (place) or logical relationship of its object to the rest of the sentence. Nouns which follow prepositions are their objects. Common prepositions include 'by', 'to', 'with', 'without', 'behind' etc...

Take, for example, this sentence:
'The spider crawled slowly along the rail.'
The preposition 'along' introduces the noun phrase 'the rail' and the prepositional phrase 'along the rail' acts as an adverb, describing where the spider crawled.

Your sentences contain a number of prepositional objects, but if you are focussing on 'During the long afternoon, Darryl searched for his car keys', then there are two prepositions and therefore two prepositional objects.

'During' introduces 'the long afternoon', so there's your first object: the noun phrase 'the long afternoon'.

'For' introduces 'his car keys', so there's your second prepositional object: the noun phrase 'his car keys'.

If you do not want to identify entire noun phrases as objects, you could just select the nouns: 'afternoon' and 'keys', but because the noun phrases describe the state of the noun, I believe it is more correct to identify the entire noun phrase as the object.

The other prepositions in the second sentence are 'under', 'beneath' and 'inside'.
See if you can figure out the other objects in the other sentence, seeing as I just did your homework for you. ;)

Answer 4

The Long Afternoon

Answer 5

Afternoon is an object for the preposition during

keys is an object for the preposition for

bed is the object for under

Beneath and inside are also prepositions -- look for words that tell where & when and that will help you find the prepositions, then it is a matter of finding the nouns (Person, place or thing) that the prepositions are describing.

Answer 6

searching for his car keys. I'm glad I can be helpful to your question.

Answer 7

keys

Answer 8

keys

Answer 9

keys