1. Prepositions

2. What is a prepositional phrase?
They tell: WHERE, WHEN, AND HOW
Begins with a preposition and ends with a noun or pronoun
Will not be the subject or verb of the sentence
What is a direct object?
Direct objects receive the action of the verb in a sentence.

3. Compound Objects
Sometimes the prepositional phrase will have two or more nouns or pronouns following the preposition.
Examples:
to the store and post office
with John and me

4. Compound Subjects
Sometimes there may be two or more subjects in the sentence.
Example:
During the snowstorm, the boys and girls rushed home.

5. Helping Verbs: do, does, did has, have, had may, might, must
should, could, would
shall, will, can
is, am, are, was, were, be, being, been

6. Not Not is never a verb. Not is an adverb.
Put a box around not or n’t.
Examples:
The child with the red hair did not sit beside me.
This house is not for sale.

7. Infinitives Sometimes the word to will come before a verb.
TO + VERB = INFINITIVE
TO + VERB IS NOT A PREPOSTITIONAL PHRASE
Place an infinitive in parenthesis.
Example:
I like (to sing) in the morning.

8. Imperatives An imperative sentence gives a command.
In an imperative sentence, the subject is the word (You).
(You) is written at the beginning of the sentence or near the verb, it is underlined, and placed in parenthesis.
Example:
(You) Go down the street.

9. Preposition vs. Adverb
If a preposition is standing alone, then it is an adverb.
If you see two prepositions next to each other, one of them is part of the prepositional phrase, and the other is the adverb.
Example:
The dog squeezed in through the door.
Place a star above prepositions that are working as adverbs.