Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Journal Entry: None. Use the first 10 minutes of class to prepare your group to present the short story.Classwork: Each group will present their short story with appropriate sound effects. Class Notes: Grammar 13.1, Prepositions and prepositional Phrases.
Homework: None. Don’t forget Friday’s Reading Log.

Prepositions - Class Notes 13.1

A Preposition is a word that relates a noun or a pronoun to some other word in a sentence.

Commonly Used Prepositions

about   at      down   of      to               

above   before  during off     toward

across  behind  for    on      under

after   below   from   out     until

against beneath in     outside up

along   beside  inside over    upon

among   between into   since   with

around  beyond  like   through within

as      by      near   without throughout

Compound Prepositions

according to  aside from  in front of  instead of

across from   because of  in place of  on account of

along with    far from    in spite of  on top of

A prepositional phrase is a group of words that begins with a preposition and ends with a noun or pronoun, which is called the object of the preposition.