Prepositional Phrases
What are the two types of prepositional phrases.
Adjective and Adverb.
What are three types of subordinate clauses.
Adjective clauses, Adverb clauses, and noun clauses.
Infinitives are "to +____ "
What is a verb. "to+a verb"
True or false: Gerunds can be end in -ing and -ed.
false. Gerunds only end in -ing
What type of prepositional phrase answers the questions what kind, which one, how many, and how much.
Adjective phrase.
Subordinate adjective clauses usually begin with what types of pronouns.
Relative pronouns.
Infinitives are different than prepositional phrases because unlike prepositional phrases which can only be adjectives and adverbs, infinitive phrases function also as what?
nouns
Name three functions of gerunds in a sentence.
noun, direct object, indirect object, predicate noun, object of a preposition, appositive
"After the game, we all gathered and talked in the hall." In this sentence which adverb phrases modifies gathered and talked.
"After the game" and "in the hall"
Name five subordinate conjunctions.
as, after, whether, since, because, if, when
True or false: Appositives modify adjectives and adverbs.
False; They identify pronouns and nouns.
True or false: Gerunds can only function as nouns in a sentence.
True
"I taught me sister to bike today." In this sentence "to bike" is what type of phrase?
An infinitive not a prepositional phrase.
Name three functions of a noun clause in a sentence.
subject, direct object, indirect object, predicate noun, object of a preposition, appositive
"I chose the color neon blue, an unusual color for a car." In this sentence, what is the appositive phrase.
"an unusual color for a car."
1. "Yelling, my brother upset me." 2. My brother's yelling upset me." The sentence that contains a gerund is.
Sentence 2.
True or false: Prepositional phrases contain a subject and can stand alone as a sentence.
False.
Identify the noun clause and its function in the sentence: She took a bite of whatever was in the boiling pot on the stove.
noun clause: whatever was in the boiling pot on the stove. Function: object of the preposition "of"
Identify the infinitive phrase and its function in this sentence: To think is the purpose of life.
"To think" ; it is functioning as a noun which is the subject.
In this sentence, identify the gerund phrase and its function: My hobby, gardening in the spring, is my favorite outdoor activity.
"gardening in the spring" ; function: appositive