Prepositional Phrases 101
She cooked dinner in a flash!
Identify the prepositional phrase
in a flash!
Sugar may be harmful to your health indicates what level of probability?
What are grammatical forms of modality in verb groups
What are modal auxiliary verbs?
This classroom acronym provides students a list of words used to make conjunctions
What is FANBOYS?
An image that has no moving parts or processes is?
A static image.
What's the difference between a phrase and a clause?
phrase is multiple words (no process)
Clause is a simple sentence with at least one process
Summer is rainy indicates what level of frequency?
What is high level frequency?
Using the modal aux verb would (expect better results) expresses what about the tense?
Looking into a future event, has not happened at the time of talking/writing.
An independent clause (or simple sentence) has how many ideas in it?
One
What type of modality is in this image?
High, low or both?
Both!
Prepositional phrases often give us what type of information in the sentence?
Circumstances
You don't have to do your homework indicates what level of obligation?
High level, but a degree of flexibility.
may expect rain
will expect rain
must expect rain
What clause has the highest degree of (certainty) modality?
Must expect rain
A sentence that conjoins two or more simple sentences together is?
What is a compound sentence?
This symbol that points can mean sequence or part of labelling
what is an arrow
if the prepositional phase gives us additional verb information it is also known as...
an adverbial
There is a possibility that rain will occur today.
'a possibility' doesn't not act as part of a verb group, rather it is?
Modal adjective as part of the noun group
He could be angry.
How modal is their opinion?
Low modal certainty. Not absolute.
A complex sentence will have at least one dependent clause. What type of conjunction will you need?
Subordinating conjunction
A dynamic image describes...
the happenings/processes/moving parts
There is a woman beside the big man.
What is the prepositional object of the sentence?
'the big man'
'In my opinion' or 'there is evidence' are examples of what?
Modal clauses/phrases
It's impossible. What is a negative modal auxiliary + verb example to express this?
Can not (do, happen, etc)
The conjunction 'if' provides what type of meaning to a complex sentence?
What is a condition?
A text that combines both imagery and written text is considered what?
Multimodal