Prepositional Phrases Flashcards
1
Q
How to identify nouns
A
- Noun is person, place, thing, or idea
- Can it be make plural?
- Can you put a noun article in front of it? (A, an, the)
- Nouns often end in -ism, -tion, -sion, -ian
2
Q
End of prep phrase is called?
A
Object of prep or OP
3
Q
Adjective clause
A
Contains subject and verb and begins with prep
4
Q
Infinitive?
A
To+verb
5
Q
When is a prep phrase an adjective?
A
When is answers which one or what kind
- more than 1 adj may modify same word
- adj phrases follow and describe a noun/pronoun
- cannot be moved without changing meaning in sentence
6
Q
When is a prep phrase and adverb prep phrases?
A
When it answers where, when, why, how, to what extent, in what way
- modify adj or adverbs
- don’t follow nouns
- ^if they do, they don’t describe nouns
- can be moved to other parts of sentence
- sentences can contain more than one adverb phrase and all can modify same word
7
Q
Caution about but and for
A
They can be conjunctions
8
Q
What is a prep phrase?
A
-starts with prep and ends with noun or pronoun
