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Prepositions
What is a prepositional phrase?
They tell: WHERE, WHEN AND HOW
Begin with a preposition and end with a
noun or pronoun
Will not be the subject or verb of the
sentence
Compound Objects
Sometimes the prepositional phrase will
have two or more nouns or pronouns
following the preposition.
Examples:
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to the store and post office
with John and me
Compound Subjects
Sometimes there may be two or more
subjects in the sentence.
Example:
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During the snowstorm, the boys and girls
rushed home.
Helping Verbs:
do, does, did
has, have, had
is, am, are, was,
were, be, being, been
may, must, might
should, could, would
shall, will, can
Not
Not is never a verb. It is an adverb.
Put a box around not or n’t.
Examples:
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The child with the red hair did not sit beside
me.
This house is not for sale.
Infinitives
Sometimes to will come before a verb.
TO + VERB = INFINITIVE
TO + VERB IS NOT A PREPOSTITIONAL
PHRASE
Place an infinitive in parenthesis.
Example:
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I like (to sing) in the morning.
Imperatives
An imperative sentence gives a command.
In an imperative sentence, the subject is
(You).
(You) is written at the beginning of the
sentence, underlined, and placed in
parenthesis.
Example:
(You) Go down the street.
Preposition vs. Adverb
If a preposition is standing alone, then it is an
adverb.
If you see two prepositions next to each other,
one of them is part of the prepositional phrase,
and the other is the adverb.
Example:
The dog squeezed in through the door.
Helpful Hint: Words that end in ly are usually
adverbs.