Painting With PhrasesGrammar Review

WithMrs. Demos and Mr. Stein

Objectives• Students will recognize a phrase in order to

support their writing and knowledge of parts of a sentence

• Students will also be able to discriminate and explain the differences between the 5 types of phrases: preposition, appositive, infinitive, participle, and absolute phrases to use correctly in their writing.

• Students will categorize and generate examples of each phrase type as they create a reference tool for use throughout the year on this topic.

Formative Pre-Assessment

• Put check on your comfort level with phrases:

• Uncertain• Familiar• Very Confident

I completely ignored the fact that the

idea of falling a hundred or so feet in a

barrel was incredibly stupid.

Subject and Predicate -- Simplified

• Subject is the Person, Place, Thing or Idea that the whole sentence is about.

• Predicate is the action of the sentence.– What the subject is doing.– Example:

Practice Identifying Subject and Predicate Action Verb

• I read an article in a magazine called "The

Fools Who Shoot the Falls."

• The barrel was filling up with water quickly.

• You could not kick a pickle barrel apart

from the inside.

What is a phrase?

• A group of words intended to have meaning– (Does not contain a subject AND a predicate

action)• Often will be used to describe the subject

or the predicate action.• The clock ran.

Which?How?Why?What?When?Where?

Painting with Phrases

• Phrases Bring Color to boring simple sentences:– The alligator opened its mouth.

• Which alligator?• Where did this happen?• Why did it open up its mouth?• When did this happen?

Under the darkness of the storm, the alligator, the last one left at the zoo, opened its mouth, filled with sharp teeth and dripping with blood to scare nearby attackers.

5 types of Phrases

• Infinitive• Preposition• Appositive• Participle• Absolute

Students will create their own phrase palates

Infinitive• To + verb + any additional modifiers

connected to it.• Can be used as noun, adjective, or adverb

– Her plan to eliminate crime won wide acceptance among urban politicians. [describes which plan, functions as an adjective]

– To watch Uncle Billy tell this story is an eye-opening experience. [noun-subject of the sentence]

– Juan went to college to study veterinary medicine. [tells us why he went, so it's an adverb]

Preposition

• Begins with preposition and ends with a noun.

• Often will show location and time –answer the questions: – WHERE and WHEN

• Can be used as adjective / adverb as well.• Examples:

– In the Middle Ages people only bathed once a year; that bath usually took place in May.

– The monkey with the banana was jumping in his cage.

Appositive• Renames the noun – or describes which

one?• Always set apart with commas

– Mexico City, the biggest city in the world, has many interesting archaeological sites.

– Denver, the capital of Colorado, is the home of the Denver Broncos, the least dominant football team in the US.

Participle• Verb used as an adjective ending in –ing

or –ed.– Example: The children, playing with markers,

made a mess of the kitchen floor.

Absolute• Modifies the rest of the sentence.• Begins with personal pronoun set apart

with commas• Examples:

– His attitude great, the biker would rather go another fifty miles than sit around in the lodge.

Sorting Activity

• Get list of phrases• With group make 5 categories• Be prepared to defend why you chose to

put a phrase into a given grouping

Homework

• Create a separate sentence that includes one of the 5 phrases for each phrase type we reviewed– Infinitive– Participle– Appositive– Preposition– Absolute

Homework

• Create a separate sentence that includes one of the 5 phrases for each phrase type we reviewed– Infinitive– Participle– Appositive– Preposition– Absolute

Create the Painting with Phrases

• Design and color your palettes• Use sentences from HW as samples

Formative Post Assessment

• Put check on your comfort level with phrases:

• Uncertain• Familiar• Very Confident

Quiz