Prepositions Writing with Clarity

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PrepositionsWriting with Clarity
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Prepositions

• A word or word phrase that shows a relationship
  between a noun or pronoun and other words in a
  sentence.
• A preposition will tell 4 things
• Where something is (location)
• Where something is going (direction)
• When something happens (time)
• The relationship between a noun/pronoun and
  another word in a sentence

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Prepositions

• In your notes, you have 45 seconds to write down
  as many prepositions as you can remember
• GO

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UNTIL
OUT
THROUGH
ACROSS
Prepositions
AMONG
DURING
BETWEEN
OVER
FROM
INTO
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Prepositions
Here is a list of the most common prepositions
aboard along behind but (except) from off past until
about amid below by in on since up
above among beneath down inside onto through upon
across around beside during into out to with
after at between except near outside toward within
against before beyond for of over under without
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Prepositions
Here is a list of the most common prepositions
aboard along behind but (except) from off past until
about amid below by in on since up
above among beneath down inside onto through upon
across around beside during into out to with
after at between except near outside toward within
against before beyond for of over under without
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Common Prepositions

• About
• Above
• Across
• After
• Below
• Along
• Alongside
• Among
• Before
• Beneath

• Against
• At
• Around
• Behind
• Beside(s)
• Between
• Beyond
• By
• Down
• During

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Theres more.

• For
• From
• In
• Inside
• Into
• Like
• Near
• Of
• Off
• On

• Outside
• Over
• Past
• Since
• Through
• To
• Toward
• Under
• Until
• Up

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A few more

• Upon
• With
• Within
• Without

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Phrasal Prepositions

• According to
• Because of
• In front of
• Instead of

• Across from
• In back of
• In place of
• Next to

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Prepositions

• Review What is a preposition?
• (you may look at your notes)
• -word or word phrase
• -shows a relationship between a noun or
  pronoun and other words in a sentence
• -tells location, direction, time

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Prepositions

• You have FOUR minutes to write TWO, FIFTEEN word
  sentences.
• Use a preposition in the sixth and twelfth
  positions for each sentence. (no repeats)
• Examples
• The famous golfing legend leaned over the tiny,
  white, dimpled ball on the ninth tee.
• Pedro Feliz launched a ball toward McCovey Cove,
  but it bounced off the brick wall.

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Prepositional Phrases

• Starts with a preposition, ends with an object
• The word or word group that the preposition
  introduces is its object.
• NO verbs will be in the phrase

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Prepositional Phrases
They received a postcard from Bobby telling
about his trip to Canada.
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Prepositional Phrases
Lets look again at the sentences you practiced
with. The pizza in the oven is mine. The girl by
the door is my sister. The runners raced around
the track.
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Prepositional Phrases
in the oven by the door around the track
These are prepositional phrases. Prepositional
phrases start with a preposition and end with the
object of a preposition.
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Object of a Preposition

• The object of a preposition
• must be a noun or a pronoun
• always comes at the end of a prepositional phrase

Example The cookies are in the oven. Oven is a
noun that ends the prepositional phrase. Oven is
the object of the preposition.
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Test Your Knowledge

• Identify the prepositional phrase.
• I sat with my mom.

I sat with
with my
with my mom
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Test Your Knowledge
Identify the prepositional phrase. I chose a
book from the library.
chose a book
book from the library
from the library
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Test Your Knowledge
Identify the prepositional phrase. After gym
class, we got a drink.
After gym
After gym class
After gym class, we
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Find the prepositions in the following
sentencesWrite your answers on your paper.

• 1) Do you like to play hide-and-go-seek?
• 2) My favorite place to hide is under the kitchen
  table.
• 3) If someone is already there, I usually try in
  the bathroom closet.
• 4) If there is not enough room in the closet, I
  will crawl under my bed.

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Did you find all 4?

• 1) Do you like to play hide-and-go-seek?
• 2) My favorite place to hide is under the kitchen
  table.
• 3) If someone is already there, I usually try in
  the bathroom closet.
• 4) If there is not enough room in the closet, I
  will crawl under my bed.

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Which of the following words are NOT prepositions?
across which from over what for
how between round up whenever before
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The GREEN words are NOT prepositions
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RIGHT!

• You found the prepositional phrase!
• Well done!

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Prepositional Phrases

• You have FOUR minutes to write TWO sentences
  using the prepositions BENEATH and OUTSIDE.
• Make sure you put the prepositional phrase in
  (parentheses) and underline the preposition. (If
  you have time, put an arrow from the preposition
  to its object)

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Preposition Practice

• You have FIVE minutes to write a paragraph of
  SEVENTY-FIVE words.
• You must include a minimum of FIFTEEN
  prepositions in the paragraph.
• Topic choices
• You are caught in a high speed chase and are
  writing down what happens so you can report every
  detail to the cops.
• You are directing Captain Jack Sparrow on his
  latest hunt for buried treasure.

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Preposition Practice

• You have FIVE minutes to write as much as you
  can, as well as you can, using a minimum of TEN
  prepositional phrases.
• Topic
• You are describing something that is cold, wet
  and slimy without using those words.

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THE END!!!

• GREAT JOB!!!