Transcript Agenda for December 16, 2011

AC Agenda for December 16, 2011
• Clear your desk except for one clean sheet of
paper and a pen or pencil.
• Warm Up: Brain Dump for Vocabulary Quiz
• Vocabulary Quiz, Unit 1 Set 4
• If you have not finished all three verbals
worksheets, do so. Remember to check your
answers.
• Read silently.
• QUIZ TUESDAY OVER VERBALS
OL Agenda for December 16, 2011
• Warm Up: Practice with verbs.
• Introduction to Prepositional Phrases
• Practice with Prepositional PhrasesWorksheet pages 125-132.
• Quiz Tuesday over verbs:
– Identifying verbs and verb phrases
– Identifying action and linking verbs
– Identifying transitive and intransitive action verbs
OL Warm Up
• Write each sentence.
• Underline verb or verb phrase from each
sentence.
• Write whether it is action (AV) or linking (LV).
• If it is an action verb, write whether it is
transitive (has a direct object) or intransitive
(does NOT have a direct object)
• If it is a linking verb, circle the subject and the
predicate nominative or the predicate adjective..
Verb Practice Sentences
• 1. Ellen was taking pictures of the
ocean.
• 2. The weather was cold and stormy.
• 3. The waves reached high into the air.
• 4. Dark clouds hung over the water.
• 5. Ellen could not have chosen a worse
day to be out on the beach.
Verb Practice Sentences
• 1. Ellen was taking pictures of the ocean. AV
Transitive
• 2. The weather was cold and stormy. LV
• 3. The waves reached high into the air. AV
Intransitive
• 4. Dark clouds hung over the water. AV
Intransitive
• 5. Ellen could not have chosen a worse day to be
out on the beach. AV Transitive
Prepositional Phrases
• A prepositional phrase is a group of related
words used as a single part of speech and does
not contain a verb and its subject. Prepositional
phrases begin with a preposition and include an
object (noun or pronoun) and possibly modifiers.
• to the store
• under the stairs
• for your birthday
• after an early dinner
Prepositional Phrases
• Prepositional phrases can do only two possible
jobs in a sentence:
– Act like an adjective (modify a noun/pronoun and
answer Which one? What kind? How many? How
much?)
– Act like an adverb (modify a verb, adjective, or adverb
and answer How? When? Where? To what extent
(how far? how long?) Why?
Prepositional Phrases
• The subject, direct object, indirect object,
predicate nominative, predicate adjective,
nor ANY OTHER part of the sentence will be
in a prepositional phrase.
• The only job a prepositional phrase can do is
act like an adjective or act like an adverb.
• If you are asked to find any other part of a
sentence, such as the subject or direct object,
ignore all prepositional phrases.