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Prepositions
• A preposition is a direction word.
– Around, under, through, beneath…
• Think: Prep’s position
• The two NFL teams with the best
records played a championship
game.
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aboard
about
above
across
after
against
along
amid
among
anti
around
as
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before
behind
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below
beneath
beside
besides
between
beyond
but
by
despite
down
during
except
excepting
excluding
following
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for
from
in
inside
into
like
minus
near
of
off
on
onto
opposite
outside
over
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past
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round
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save
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since
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than
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through
to
toward
towards
under
underneath
unlike
until
up
upon
versus
via
with
within
without
Prepositional Phrases
• A prepositional phrase STARTS with a
preposition and ENDS with a noun.
– On the bookshelf
– Between the houses
– For the goal
– With my friends
Find the prepositional phrases
Lisa told the children a story about an elephant.
Give me one good reason for doing that job!
Mrs. Barnes gave Chris a reward for finding her
pencil.
Janet took her lunch with her to the seminar.
For breakfast she likes bananas with
strawberries.
The police searched throughout the apartment
complex for the escaped criminal.
During the summer Gordie fishes under the
large oak tree beside Silver Creek.
Inside the auditorium a group of dancers were
practicing.
He likes movies about war.
• Down the dark alley the cat chased a rat
with long whiskers.
• Around the world music brings together
people of all nationalities.
• Mud squished beneath her feet as Ann
walked through the woods during a
rainstorm.
• By noon Jimmy decided a nap on the
hammock would be nice.
• Geese live in flocks while cattle live among
herds.
• He likes movies about war; she likes
movies with a romantic theme.
Nouns
• What is a noun?
– Person, place, thing, idea
• Examples?
– Food?
– School?
– Happiness?
– Jogging?
– Over?
– Rocky Mountain High School?
Concrete nouns
Abstract noun
Find the nouns…
1. Kittens and cats make fun pets.
2. Terry has a beautiful garden.
3. I read some very interesting articles in that
magazine.
4. Shawn plays football every Saturday.
5. Sadness makes the day go by longer.
6. Later, the National Football League was
formed.
Pronoun
• A pronoun replaces a noun
– Bertha thought Bertha’s cat was the best cat
Bertha ever had.
– Bertha thought her cat was the best cat she
ever had.
• (Pros replace amateurs.)
• In the late 1950s the American
Football League was formed, and it
also held a championship every year.
Verbs: Action and Linking
• Action Verb: A verb that shows an action (the
subject is doing something)
– Examples:
• Lucy walked to the store.
• Jody felt the cold breeze.
• Can Spike please grab the tomato sauce?
• Linking Verb: Connects the subject to additional
information using is, am, are as base words.
– Examples:
• Keila is a shopaholic.
• I am my mother’s child.
• During the afternoon, my cats are content.
• Football’s most important contest is
the annual Super Bowl game.
How can you tell if it’s an
ACTION verb or LINKING verb?
• Put in “is, am, are”… if it works for the
sentence and it makes sense, it’s a linking
verb.
– I smell the delicious aroma of a mushroom pizza.
– A ten-item quiz seems impossibly long after a
night of no studying.
– Irene always feels sleepy after pigging out on
pizza from Antonio’s.
– My dog Oreo felt the wet grass beneath her paws.
Action or Linking?
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The boy seemed sad.
The audience grew quiet.
The bus driver went to the store.
The pizza tastes good.
Bring me the pencil, please.
The popcorn smells good.
Adjectives
• What is an adjective?
– Describes a noun!
• What can you tell me about my phone?
– Pink? Small? Square? = ALL ADJECTIVES!
• Adjectives answer the following questions:
1. Which kind? (The yellow canary)
2. Which one? (That turtle, or those plants)
3. How many? (Four hamsters)
4. How much? (Enough food, few people)
Since the first Super Bowl was played in Los
Angeles in 1967, the competition has
continued to improve.
Adverbs
• Adverbs describe verbs
– How? (ly)
– When?
– Where?
• She screamed.
• Yesterday, they stepped inside, and the clerk
quickly asked if she could help them. (3)
• Professional football began with no system
of fairly choosing a championship team.
• Eventually, the AFL and NFL championship
teams played each other at the end of the
season.
Conjunctions
I’m sorry… we have to.
Conjunction Junction... What's Your
Function?
• Conjunctions – join two words or sentence
parts.
– And, but, or, nor, for, yet, so
– When, if, since, unless…
• Thousands attend the game at the
stadium, and millions watch it on
television.
Interjection
• Interjections are words that express
emotion.
– Hey!
– Ouch!
– Please!
• Fantastic! Fran Tarkenton threw
eighty-nine passes in three Super
Bowl games.