1. Objective: To correctly identify phrases and their effect
English 10 Honors day 24
Objective: To correctly identify phrases and their effect

2. Homework Get out your paragraph from last class.
Take 3 minutes to share with someone else in the room to make sure your explanation makes logical sense.

3. Practice
Complete the first 10 sentences on the worksheets for participles, infinitives, and gerunds.
Complete the worksheet labeled “Unit 3 Review.”
This will be for a grade!

4. New Notes
Take out your notes from last class so we can add to them. We will use the back of same sheet of paper.

5. Prepositional Phrases
Prepositions show the relationship of a noun or pronoun to another word
Act as ADJECTIVES or ADVERBS
Add precision/clarity and help combine sentence
There is an egg in the nest.
Zeb dreams about leaving for Seattle.

6. Appositive Phrases
Appositives rename or identify another noun or pronoun
Act as NOUNS
Add precision/clarity and help combine sentence
My best friends, Meredith and Emily, say that they are going to New Orleans, my favorite city.

7. Parenthetical Phrases
Parenthetical phrases are editorial – or unnecessary– comments
Place commas around parenthetical phrases
Help to add voice
The headmistress had been, I suppose, a very mean lady.

8. Worksheets
Complete the worksheets over appositives and prepositions.

9. Consider all of the syntactical elements we have discussed and answer the following question.
How is the author using syntax in the last two paragraphs on page 25 to convey a personal voice and reflective/pensive tone?