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1 Using an Adverb Well Miss Johnson

2 Good Good is an adjective or a predicate adjective
You are a good football player That movie sounds good

3 Well Well is an adverb; it modifies an action verb and explains how someone does something Most people spoke well of him They recovered well from their illness How well do you know him?

4 Good versus Well You edit good You edit well This pencil works good
The pencil works well Those glasses look good on you Those glasses look well on you

5 Diagramming Prepositional Phrases
Miss Johnson

6 Adjective Prepositional Phrase
Prepositional phrase answers the question of: Which? What kind? How many? It will come RIGHT after the noun or pronoun it modifies

7 Adverb Prepositional Phrase
Prepositional phrase answers the question of: How When Where How much Why Usually modifies a verb and sometimes an adjective Adverb prepositional phrases can go anywhere in the sentence and be moved within the sentence without changing the meaning

8 Diagramming Figure out what question the preposition answered
Adjective Adverb Which? How? What kind? When? How many? Where? How much? Why? Figure out what word the preposition is modifying

9 Practice Charles is working in the garden

10 Practice Before the show, we ate ice cream.

11 Practice Charles is working in the garden by the river.

12 Practice The ice cream on the cone began melting all over my hand.

13 Practice Carlita does her best work early during the semester.

14 Practice She felt under the weather. Must be a be or linking verb


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