Sentence combining: Prepositional phrases To practice writing sentences with prepositional phrases, combine each group of sentences below into one sentence that includes one or two prepositional phrases. You will have to add, delete, and rearrange words. Some items have more than one possible answer. 1. The slow loris protects itself well. Its habitat is Southeast Asia. It possesses a poisonous chemical. 2. The loris frightens predators when it exudes this chemical. The chemical comes from a gland. The gland is on the loris’s upper arm. 3. The loris’s chemical is highly toxic. The chemical is not like a skunk’s spray. Even small quantities of the chemical are toxic. 4. A tiny dose can affect a human. The dose would get in the mouth. The human would be sent into shock. 5. Predators probably can sense the toxin. They detect it at a distance. They use their nasal organs.