1. Please get out your rough draft and your notebook (or wherever you keep your notes).

2. Get out the blue rubric I gave you last week. And the yellow HCPSS Style-guide.

3. Write your answers to the test questions in your notebook. (Don’t write on the test.)

You may use your notes to help you.

Prepositions

Definition: Words that show the relationship of a noun to

some other word in a sentence.

Examples: at, underneath, by, above, of, beneath, down,

over.

Prepositional Phrase

Definition: A phrase that includes a preposition and the

object of the preposition.

Example: The man from Baltimore was giving a

speech.

Prepositional Phrase Example

• Rhodopis was an outsider in Egypt and the servant girls never let her forget it.

• In Egypt, Rhodopis was an outsider and the servant girls never let her forget it.

Prepositional Phrase Example

• Cinderella married the Prince with the help of her mother’s spirit.

• With the help of her mother’s spirit, Cinderella married the Prince.

Introductory Adjective Example

• Rhodopis, who was blonde and had blue eyes, stuck out among the Egyptians.

• Blonde and blue eyed, Rhodopis stuck out among the Egyptians.

Introductory Adjective Example

• Because Oochigeasw was scarred, she was laughed at when she went to find Strong Wind.

• Scarred, Oochigeaskw was laughed at when she went to find Strong Wind.

Your Turn…

• Look through your rough draft to find sentences that already have a prepositional phrase or an adjective.

• Try rearranging the sentence. Ask yourself, “Does the new sentence make sense?”