Preppy Positions
The preposition in this sentence.
"Mr. Wilson walked back and forth across the room handing his students the new framework packet.
What is 'across?'
Adverbs usually end in this two letter suffix.
What is '-ly?'
To replace or reference a noun.
What is a pronoun?
The subject of this sentence.
"Bruce brings UNO to school in a briefcase every single day."
What is 'Bruce?'
To tell us the time, location, or direction of movement of a noun.
What is a preposition?
The function of the preposition in this sentence.
"Frankie left the building after completing his test and walked home."
What is 'time?'
An adverb modifies these parts of speech.
What are verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs?
To describe a noun, pronoun, or adjective.
What is an 'adjective?'
Every subject needs one of these.
What is a 'verb?'
To join together ideas, nouns, and noun-phrases across complex sentences.
What is a conjunction?
The three prepositions in this sentence.
'By the time Lincoln finished washing the dishes, the others had moved into the living room and turned on the TV.'
What are 'by, into, on.'
'Fast, quickly, these, never.'
What is 'these?'
The seven coordinating conjunctions that make up FANBOYS.
What are 'For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So.'
What typically happens to verbs and subjects when switching between active and passive voice.
What is 'flip-flopping?'
To express an exclamation or emotion, usually separated from the rest of the sentence by punctuation such as a period, comma, exclamation point, or question mark.
What is an interjection?
The prepositional phrases in this sentence.
"Graham spends the first minutes of each class chatting with the people at his table."
What are:
[of each class]
[with the people]
[at his table]
The adverb in this sentence.
"Ben has asked Mr. Wilson often when and if he will be able to have a spaghetti eating contest in English 9."
What is 'often?'
The MAIN 3 reasons that active voice is acceptable. (Tone/flow doesn't count here).
What is 'to emphasize the action over the actor, to be tactful by not naming the actor, the actor is unknown or unimportant.'
The subjects in this sentence.
"Mr. Wilson found out at the beginning of the year that Raymond is a huge fan of the Warrior Cats series."
What are 'Mr. Wilson, Raymond.'
The correct verb conjugation for this sentence.
'The team (is/are) either going out for pizza or going home for the evening.'
What is 'is?'
The word below that cannot be a preposition.
'Often, with, toward, while.'
What is 'often?'
"Mr. Wilson was not surprised to see how exceptionally well English 9 did on their Parts of Speech Unit Test."
What is 'well?'
All of the conjunctions in the following sentence.
"Neither Randy nor Aiden expected the boat to stay afloat, yet with a layer of flex seal on the hull they stayed out all day and caught plenty of fish."
What are 'neither/nor, but, and.'
The subject in this sentence.
'At the end of the day, Jaxson's skills in chess just don't measure up to Mr. Wilson's.'
What is 'skills?'
This part of speech is always included in prepositional phrases that describe direction of movement.
What is a verb?