Grammar Project
By: Abby Weeden and Brooke Smith
Prepositional Phrases
EXAMPLE:
I walked into the Candy Store.
Into is the preposition, and walked is where you find if it is an adverb or an adjective sentence. Prepositional phrases always ends with a noun. Store is the noun/object.
Participial Phrases
EXAMPLE:
Climbing the tree, the monkey reached the banana.
Climbing is the participial and banana is the noun/object. Functions as an adjective.
Appositive Phrases
Example:
Sherry, the grandma with the fro, jumped into the pool.
Sherry is the noun. in between the 2 commas is the appositive phrase. The phrase is identifying the noun. If the phrase is taken out it is still a sentence.
Simple sentences (Independent Clause)
Example:
Sam is the speaker for the play.
Sam is the subject and "the play" is the predicate it's identifying the noun. It is one independent clause.
Compound Sentences (Independent Clauses)
Example:
Mary ate 2 apples, while john only ate 1.
Mary and john are the subjects. Comma and while is what combines them. If the comma and while were taken out there would be 2 sentences remaining.
Complex Sentences (Independent and Dependent Clauses)
Example:
While John went to the supermarket, Ann stayed home
Kalie had volleyball practice while Jack had soccer practice.
In the first sentence John and Ann are the subjects. Since the dependent clause came before the independent then there had to be a comma. In the second sentence there wasn't a need for a comma since the independent started off the sentence.