1. Review, Appositives, and Prepositional
9th Grade Grammar
Review, Appositives, and Prepositional

2. Adjectives
Words that describe nouns (people, places things, or ideas).
The beautiful butterfly flew right into my net.
To catch the thief, they had to find the man with the curly hair.

3. Which word is an ADJECTIVE?
Lovely
Harshly
Hatefully
Difficultly

4. Adverbs Words that describe adjectives, verbs, and other adverbs.
Tell HOW, WHEN, or WHERE
Her shoes matched perfectly with her dress.
The terribly worried knights wondered about the dragon.
Gloomily he now walked home in the rain.

5. Which word is an ADVERB?
Slow
Sleep
Yesterday
Colorful

6. Soon Cameron will stop talking.
Opening Adverb
Opening Adjective

7. Smoothly and effortlessly, Austin stole the pencil.
Opening Adjective
Opening Adverb

8. A voice suddenly shouted at me, loud and strong and angry, but I couldn’t understand the words.
Delayed Adjective
Delayed Adverb

9. Sore, I stretched my muscles before running.
Opening Adverb
Opening Adjective

10. Appositive Phrase
A noun phrase IDENTIFYING a noun (person, place or thing) in the sentence.
Often begin with articles (a, an, the).
Answers the question WHO? or WHAT?
A gorgeous young woman, she could have been a movie star.
I packed my bag for the triathlon, an event that would prove my training was worth it.

11. Which sentence contains an APPOSITIVE PHRASE?
He found what he was looking for all this time.
The gifts were generous and expensive.
Kyle, a blond haired and blue eyed student, seems innocent but is mischievous.

12. Ms. Miller, a crazy English teacher, corrected the grammar on the sign at Dairy Queen.
The underlined portion is an appositive phrase
1. True 2. False

13. Prepositional Phrases
“Anything the cat can do”
Common Prepositions:
about, above, around, on, at, behind, below, beyond, through, near, off, over, under, up with, upon (there are hundreds more!)
On the other side of the classroom, students started singing “White Christmas”.

14. Which word is a PREPOSITION?
Soon
Then
Behind Is

15. The cat went to his food dish.
Prepositional Phrase
Appositive Phrase

16. I picked up the passengers near the train depot.
Appositive or Prepositional?
Underline it!

17. I picked up the passengers near the train depot.
Prepositional!

18. The dog ran.
Add an appositive phrase to this sentence!

19. The class complained.
Add a prepositional phrase!

20. Put it in practice!
Write a short paragraph (7+ sentences) on any topic you want!
3 prepositional phrases
3 absolute phrases