1. LA: Wednesday, January 16, 2019
Handouts: * Grammar #42 (Prepositional Phrases)
Homework: * Grammar #42 (Prepositional Phrases) [If you don’t finish in class, it is homework. ]
Assignments due: * Grammar #41 (Prepositions)

2. Starter #1 Take out your comp book. Turn to the first blank page
Starter #1 Take out your comp book. Turn to the first blank page. In the upper right hand corner, write the following:
Tues., Jan. 15, 2019
QW #36: What I Like About Me!
What do you like most about yourself? Describe yourself in terms of your positive qualities. If you find this question uncomfortable, remember that “God made me, and God don’t make junk!” [SIC]  Everyone has positive qualities and features. Describe yours.
Remember to write in complete sentences, avoiding fragments and run-ons. If you are not sure how to spell a certain word, just sound it out and circle it.

3. Lesson Goal: Learn about prepositional phrases.
Outcomes: Be able to . . .
Define the term “prepositional phrase.”
Define the term “object of the preposition.”
Identify prepositional phrase in any given sentence.
Identify the object of the preposition in any given prepositional phrase.

4. Compound prepositions
Starter #2: Yesterday we learned that a preposition is a word that relates a noun or a pronoun to some other word in a sentence. Most prepositions are single words, but some are made up of two or three words.
What term do we use to name prepositions that are made up of two or more words?
Compound prepositions
We also found examples of prepositions and compound prepositions:
Park the trailer behind the barn.
Victor came to the meeting instead of Charles.

5. Starter #3 These words are the ones most commonly used as prepositions:
about because of in addition to over
above before in front of past
according to behind inside since
across below in spite of than
across from beneath instead of through
after beside into throughout
against between like (as) till (until)
ahead of beyond near to
along but (except) next to toward
along with by (next to) of under
among despite off underneath
apart from down on until
around during onto up
as except on top of upon
as well as for out with
aside from from out of within
at in outside without

6. Starter #3 A prepositional phrase is a group of words that begins with a preposition and ends with a noun or pronoun. That noun or pronoun is called the object of the preposition.
See if you can identify the prepositional phrase and the object of each preposition below:
The Adirondack Mountains are in northern New York.
New York is the object of the preposition in
I will mark the map for you.
you is the object of the preposition for