Prepositions
This is the definition of a preposition
What is a word used to connect and establish the relationship between the object and something else in the sentence?
"The red car with a sunroof traveled down the road."
What is correct?
The role of an appositive.
What is the addition of additional information to clarify or elaborate upon something in the sentence?
"The water was too cold, we didn't go swimming."
The water was too cold, so we didn't go swimming.
Adjectival or adverbial: "Prolonged exposure to extremely loud music will most likely cause hearing loss."
What is an adjectival prepositional phrase?
These 8 words are examples of prepositions.
What are... aboard, about, above, across, after, against, along, amid, among, around, as, at, before, behind, below, beneath, beside, between, beyond, but, by, considering, despite, down, during, except, excluding, following, for, from, in, inside, into, like, near, of, etc.
"The trapeze artist delighted the child on a swing in the air."
What is incorrect? The trapeze artist on a swing in the air delighted the child.
Where's the appositive: "A middle-school orchestra director, Mr. Simms practices weekly with the musicians."
What is a middle-school orchestra director?
Correct or incorrect: "Mom went to the bank and spoke with a teller."
What is correct?
An appositive phrase that requires separation from the rest of the sentence.
What is a nonrestrictive appositive phrase?
Adverb or preposition: "Hours came about by the divisions of the day, and minutes and seconds by the divisions of the circle."
What is an adverb?
" The fence behind the house needs to be painted white."
What is correct?
A type of appositive that is nonessential for the sentence and its clarity.
What is a nonrestirictive appositive?
A grammatical error in which two independent clauses (or one independent and one dependent clause) are joined together improperly.
What is a comma splice?
Correct or incorrect: "The biography Let's Roll! Ordinary People, Extraordinary Courage was written by Lisa Beamer."
What is incorrect?
"An ancestor of Hawthorne ordered the executions at the 1692 Salem witch trials."
An ancestor (of Hawthorne) ordered the executions (at the 1692 Salem witch trials).
"At the beginning of the year, the man unwisely bought a sports car on a tight budget."
What is incorrect? At the beginning of the year, the man with a tight budget unwisely bought a sports car.
"The trumpets play my favorite part in the piece Also sprach Zarathustra.
What is "also sprach zarathustra"
"Holding your cards keeps other players guessing, but puts you at risk."
Holding your cards keeps other players guessing but puts you at risk.
Restrictive or nonrestrictive: "Andrew arrived in Africa in the year 1957."
What is restrictive?
This sentence includes _ prepositions: "The pony jumped over the fence, ran across the field, and sat next to the barn below our old oak tree."
What is a sentence with 4 prepositions?
"The phone was ringing with the blue case on the table."
What is incorrect? The phone with the blue case was ringing on the table.
The three types of punctuation that are used to separate appositives.
What are commas, em dashes, or parentheses?
The reason why comma splices are incorrect.
Commas need to be accompanied by a conjunction when connecting independent clauses.
Adjectival or adverbial: "After its publication, it was very popular."
What is adverbial?