Prepositions

Warm-Up Take out your composition notebooks. If you haven’t done so already, write your name on the front cover. If you don’t have one yet, then take out a lined sheet of paper. Supplies, specifically composition notebooks, are due on Wednesday. Come talk to me if getting one by then is going to be a problem. Sign and date the student contracts. Pass them up to the front of your row.

Journal Entry #1 What did you do over the summer? Ex: what did you eat, how much did you sleep, where did you go, what did you watch, who did you spend time with, etc. Write for 10 minutes.

Why do we teach grammar in school? Think-Pair-Share Take a moment to think about your answer. Pair up with someone else (your choice). Share your answers with each other.

Learning Goal and Scale Design sentences with multiple prepositions/prepositional phrases to enhance meaning of your writing. 4: I can not only do 3, but I can also teach others to use prepositions/phrases to enhance meaning in their sentences. 3: I can design sentences with multiple prepositions/prepositional phrases to enhance meaning of your writing. 2: I can identify prepositions/prepositional phrases in sentences. 1: With help I can identify prepositions/prepositional phrases. 0: What is a preposition?

Prepositional Phrases 1. Prepositional Phrase = preposition (P) + object of preposition (OP). The preposition is the first word in the phrase and the object of the preposition is the last word in the phrase Sometimes there will be other words between the two elements. EX: to the mall; from the store; except all those

Prepositions: Position Words Slot Test for Most Prepositions = The bird flew _____________ the clouds.

Prepositions Preposition- A position word that shows relationships between objects and/or time frame “The dress from the store…” “The sword in my hand…”

List of Prepositions above beneath down like regarding until at before Prepositions LIST: above beneath down like regarding until at before during   unto across between near since up along beside except upon amid behind for of throughout among below from on to with after beyond over through within around but in outside towards without atop by inside off about into under against concerning past underneath

Object of the Preposition 2.Object of the Preposition (OP)-- the who or what in a prepositional phrase EX: I went by the store. By = preposition I went by what? The store. Store = object of the preposition EX: Angelica went home without her sister.