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English 10
Grammar Warm-Up
Journal #11
Lesson: Appositives
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An appositive is a noun or a pronoun that identifies or renames another noun or pronoun.
Read, Write and Think:
1. Submersibles, vessels that operate under water, are used in research.
 Vessels identifies or renames Submersibles.
Your Turn: Underline or highlight the appositive in each sentence. Circle the noun or pronoun the appositive
renames or identifies..
1. Oceanography, the study of the ocean, often requires courage.
2. Many oceanographers work underwater at great depths, a dangerous environment.
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Lesson: Appositive Phrases
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Appositive phrases consist of an appositive plus its modifiers.
Read, Write and Think:
1.
Submersibles, vessels that operate under water, are used in research.
 The entire phrase, vessels that operate under water, identifies or renames
Submersibles.
Your Turn: Underline the appositive phrase in each sentence; circle the appositive in the phrase.
1. Tanks of compressed air, part of the equipment of scuba divers, enable these divers
to go lower and stay longer under water.
2.
Jacques-Yves Cousteau, a famous spokesperson for oceanographic research,
was one of the inventors.
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Lesson: Identify in Text (Night)
Find it! Use Night to find a sentence that has an appositive or appositive phrase.
Use quotes and cite each sentence as well for FULL CREDIT.
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Lesson: Participles
A verbal is a form of a verb that acts as a noun, adjective or adverb.
A participle is a verbal that acts as an adjective.
Participles may be present(-ing) tense or past(-d, -ed, other ending) tense.
Read, Write and Think:
1. Gossiping, she talked fast.
 The present participle gossiping modifies (describes) she.
2. Please pick up the dropped coins.
 The past participle dropped modifies (describes) coins.
Your Turn: Circle the participle that describes the underlined noun in each sentence. Label the participle as past or
present tense on the line next to each sentence.
1. Writing quickly, the students took the exam. ___________________
2. The travelers saw a huge stone castle perched on the rocky cliff. _____________________
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Lesson: Identify in Text (Night)
Find it! Use Night to find a sentence that has participle. Use quotes and cite each sentence as well for FULL CREDIT.
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Lesson: Participial Phrases
Notes:
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A participial phrase consists of the participle and any words that describe the participle.
Read, Write and Think:
1. Gossiping with her friend, she talked fast.
 The participial phrase gossiping with her friend modifies (describes) she.
2. Please pick up the coins dropped by the elderly man.
 The participial phrase dropped by the elderly man modifies (describes) coins.
Your Turn: Circle or highlight the participial phrase that describes the underlined noun in each sentence.
1. The Statue of Liberty shows a woman holding a lighted torch.
2. Ed’s sailboat, damaged near the stern, was unusable.
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Lesson: Gerunds
Notes:
 A verbal is a form of a verb that acts as a noun, adjective or adverb.
 A gerund is a verbal that acts as noun.
 A gerund always ends in –ing.
Read, Write and Think:
1. Gossiping is not a good quality to have. Gossiping is the subject of a sentence.
2. Her favorite pastime is gossiping. What is her favorite pastime? Gossiping
Your Turn: Circle or highlight the gerund that is used as a noun in each sentence.
1. She expanded her vocabulary by reading.
2. At the age of five, Winston began acting.
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Lesson: Gerund Phrases
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A gerund phrase includes a gerund and words that describe it.
Read, Write and Think:
1. Walking to school is great exercise. Walking to school is the subject (noun) of the
sentence.
2. I love traveling to new, exciting places. traveling to new, exciting places is the
predicate noun.
Your Turn: Copy the following sentences. Circle or highlight the gerund phrase in each sentence.
1. The pilot of a hang glider generally takes off by running down a hill.
2. Holly’s favorite activity is climbing mountains in state parks.
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Lesson: Infinitives, Infinitive Phrases & Prepositional Phrases
Notes:
 Infinitives always begin with the word to and end with a verb. (to walk, to sleep, to eat)
 Infinitive phrases include the infinitive and words that describe the infinitive. (to walk each day to school)
 Prepositions use to and have an object (who or what) after it. (to the sleepy dog, to my Aunt Wendy’s house)
Read, Write and Think:
1. The whole family was eager to see the new car.
 to see the new car is the infinitive phrase describing eager (adjective),
which means the infinitive is an adverb
Your Turn:
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Copy the following sentences. Circle or highlight the infinitive phrase in each sentence.
The tourists asked the bus driver to go slower. (Adj.)
Their purpose for taking the tour was to see the countryside. (N)
The earliest attempts to fly ended in embarrassment, if not injury. (ADV)
Reflection: What did you learn? How will it help you in your writing? (3 Sentences)