Prepositions

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.