Grammar p. 448, ex. C
List all the prepositional phrases in the sentences and label them as adjective or adverb phrases. Write the word/words they modify.
1. In 1929, Edwin Hubble discovered the existence of galaxies outside the Milky Way.
2. Now we know that perhaps a million galaxies exist inside the bowl of the Big Dipper alone.
3. Astronomers believe that our galaxy is only one among billions throughout the universe.
4. Knowledge has expanded since 500 years ago, when most people believed that the earth was the center of the entire universe.
5. By the 1500s, the Polish astronomer Copernicus suggested that the earth and other planets revolved around the sun.
6. In 1633, the Italian scientist Galileo was tried and convicted for the crime of teaching that the sun is the center of the universe.
7. The Catholic Church condemned Galileo because in his teachings earth and humans were not the center of all things.
8. In Galileo’s time, people knew of only five planets besides our own—Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn.
9. Since then we have identified the planets Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto, and we have sent probes into our solar system.
10. Galileo, Copernicus, and other early astronomers would be amazed at the extent of our knowledge of space today.