1. Please get out your rough draft and your notebook (or wherever you keep your notes). 2. Get out the blue rubric I gave you last week. And the yellow HCPSS Style-guide. 3. Write your answers to the test questions in your notebook. (Don’t write on the test.) You may use your notes to help you.

Prepositions Definition: Words that show the relationship of a noun to some other word in a sentence. Examples: at, underneath, by, above, of, beneath, down, over.

Prepositional Phrase Definition: A phrase that includes a preposition and the object of the preposition. Example: The man from Baltimore was giving a speech.

Prepositional Phrase Example Rhodopis was an outsider in Egypt and the servant girls never let her forget it. In Egypt, Rhodopis was an outsider and the servant girls never let her forget it.

Prepositional Phrase Example Cinderella married the Prince with the help of her mother’s spirit. With the help of her mother’s spirit, Cinderella married the Prince.

Introductory Adjective Example Rhodopis, who was blonde and had blue eyes, stuck out among the Egyptians. Blonde and blue eyed, Rhodopis stuck out among the Egyptians.

Introductory Adjective Example Because Oochigeasw was scarred, she was laughed at when she went to find Strong Wind. Scarred, Oochigeaskw was laughed at when she went to find Strong Wind.

Your Turn… Look through your rough draft to find sentences that already have a prepositional phrase or an adjective. Try rearranging the sentence. Ask yourself, “Does the new sentence make sense?”