Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Week eight

Week Eight

Compound/Interrogative/S-Vt-DO Prepositions Tasks 1-4

Doug drank his coffee. Joy read the paper. (change to imperative or imperative compound)

Welcome

Matthew 5:14-16 – “You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden. Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead, they put it on a stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.”

Prayer

Compound/Interrogative/S-Vt-DO

This week, we will continue to talk about compound sentences and the sentence pattern S-Vt-DO. We

will be adding in the twist of making it an interrogative sentence.

Jesus loves me, and He loves you.

First, let’s identify the sentence patterns.

S Vt DO C S Vt DO

Jesus loves me, and He loves you.

Second, what is the structure of this sentence? (compound) How do we know?

We know it is compound, because it has two complete clauses joined by a conjunction.

What if it looked like this:

Jesus loves me and you.

Would it still be compound? Why?

OK. So we know that this sentence is compound, declarative, right? Let’s change this sentence into an interrogative sentence. How would I do that?

#1 - Change punctuation: Jesus loves me, and He loves you?

#2 - Use interrogative pronouns (who, when where): Who loves me, and who loves you?

#3 - Use helping verbs to begin the sentence: Does Jesus love me, and does He love you?

More sentences to change to interrogative:

Zach went fishing, and he caught a fish.

Sarah baked a cake, but Miley ate it.

Abigail completed her work, so she can play volleyball.

Preposition

Today, we are also going to learn about prepositions. A preposition relates a noun or pronoun to another word. Such as: (write on board)

Under the covers

Up the hill

Between us

Near the cross

With our borders

Without anger

Prepositions aren’t that hard for one simple reason – we memorize a list of them. Once we memorize them, we can always recognize them. (Pass out song)

Prepositions are always followed closely by a noun or pronoun. This is called the object of preposition. Find the OP in the above sentences.

So, the preposition, the OP and any adjectives between them make up a prepositional phrase.

Older students, prepositional phrases act as adjectives or adverbs and modify other words in the sentence. If it modifies a noun, it is adjectival; if it modifies a verb, then it is adverbial.

The boy hugged his mother in the morning.

Where is the prepositional phrase in this sentence?

Older students, do you have any idea whether this phrase is used as an adjective or adverb? Why?

Now, diagramming prepositional phrases: You have to find the phrase, decide what word that it describes and then diagram it under that word.

boy hugged mother

morning

Tasks 1-4

Sentence 2

Mastery Charts

Charts J and G

Review charts I and E

Work on memorizing prepositions using that song.

Editing Exercise

Classical Conversations Prepositions

(To the tune of Rudolf the Red-nosed Reindeer)

You know these prepositions I present to you

Are Essential English and you can learn them, too.

These are the words that amaze

When used in a prepositional phrase.

About, Above, Across, After,

Along, Amid, Among,

Around, at, atop, before,

Behind, below, beneath,

Beside, between, beyond, but,

By, concerning, down, during,

Except, for, from, in, inside,

Into, like, near, of, off, on,

Onto, out, outside, over,

Past, regarding, since,

Through, throughout, to, toward, under,

Underneath, until, up, upon,

With, within, without.

This is the entire list.

Prepositions relate nouns

or pronouns to another word!

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