Period 5

3Lesson 1: Prepositional Phrases
A. Identifying Prepositional Phrases
1. Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 3 is the longest of all symphonies.
2. Claude Monet painted hundreds of pictures of the same water-lily garden.
3. Among the most easily recognized photographs are those of Ansel Adams.
4. Julia Margaret Cameron, a pioneering photographer of the 19th century, developed new techniques in portrait photography.
5. During his career, Italian sculptor Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini worked for five popes.
6. Computer graphics can be used for research and entertainment.
7. Before the age of five, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart had composed a concerto.
8. Between 1920 and 1937, George Gershwin wrote many songs with his brother.
9. Traditional folk dances originated within farming communities.
10. In the first decades of the 1900s, Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova was dancing throughout Europe, the Americas, and Asia.
B. Identifying Words Modified by Prepositional Phrases
1. Many women on this reservation create silver jewelry.
2. During the winter months skiers can enjoy their sport.
3. The worlds first books were made of clay and papyrus.
4. Benjamin Franklin founded the first hospital in the United States.
5. Scotland Yard is the headquarters of the London police force.
6. The game of football originated here.
7. The rhododendrons and the azaleas blossomed at the same time.
8. Behind the counter stood the worried clerk.
9. Some people call Magellan's voyage the greatest sailing feat in history.
10. These peppers come from Peru.
A. Identifying Prepositional Phrases
1. Typhoid fever is caused by a bacterium that contaminates water and milk. Typhoid fever
2. The star near the earth is the sun. The star
3. Take the patient to the nearest hospital. Take
4. Between the April showers we visited the park. visited
5. Our hockey team will play against your team tomorrow night. will play
6. The square dance is usually danced by four couples. danced
7. German bombs fell on England that year. fell
8. A syllogism is a form of reasoning. form
9. In a syllogism, a major premise, or statement, and a minor premise are stated. major premise/minor premise
10. A logical conclusion is drawn from the two premises. drawn
B. Identifying Prepositional Phrases as Modifiers
1. Early phonograph records of Encino Caruso are valuable today. (ADJ.)
2. Computer animation produces special effects for many films. (ADV.)
3. Frank Lloyd Wright turned against traditional architectural style. (ADV.)
4. Sculptures can be created from clay, wood, stone, plaster, or metal. (ADV.)
5. Artist Georgia O' Keeffe began painting the sky and clouds after an airplane ride. (ADV.)
6. Michelangelo created the ceiling frescoes in the Sistine Chapel. (ADJ.)
7. The mobile sculpture was created by Alexander Calder. (ADV.)
8. The identity of the Mona Lisa is still a mystery. (ADJ.)
9. Have you seen the movie about that concert pianist's life? (ADJ.)
10. The woman behind the camera is Cindy Sherman, a photographer whose pictures feature herself.
(ADJ.)
A. Revising
1. (Correct) The audience rewarded the actors with enthusiastic applause.
2. That dancer in the green costume does the highest jumps.
3. At his first concert, the young boy met the world-famous conductor.
4. My classmate, with red hair, taught a dance from Ireland.
5. Tim designed the poster, on the museum door, of the upcoming exhibit.
B. Using Prepositional Phrases as Modifiers
1. That building across the street (ADJ) holds many studios on the third floor (ADJ).
2. The artist carefully (ADV) drew a pretty (ADJ) sketch.
3. The artists wholeheartedly (ADV) perfect their skills.
4. This artwork is undeniably (ADV) admired by many (ADJ).
5. The artist's beautiful (ADJ) paintings are displayed at the city hall (ADJ).
A. Identifying Appositives and Appositive Phrases
1. Oceanography, the study of the ocean, often requires courage.
2. Many oceanographers work underwater at great depths, a dangerous environment.
3. Without supplies of the gas oxygen, humans cannot work for more than a few minutes below the surface of the water.
4. Tanks of compressed air, part of the equipment of scuba divers, enable these divers to go lower and stay longer underwater.
5. In 1715, English diver John Lethbridge used wood and leather to create the first diving suit.
6. The first safe device for underwater breathing, the aqua-lung, was invented in 1943.
7.Jacques-Yves Cousteau, a famous spokesperson for oceanographic research, was one of the inventors.
B. Identifying Essential and Nonessential Appositives
1. Swiss scientist, Jacques Piccard is an oceanographic engineer. E
2. His Father Auguste Piccard is an oceanographic engineer. E
3. In 1953, the two Piccards descended 10,300 feet under the Mediterranean Sea in the bathyscaphe Trieste. NE
4. In 1960 Jacques and U.S. Navy officer Don Walsh took an even more dangerous ride in the Trieste. E
5. The scientists descended to 35,810 feet, an incredible 6.8 miles below the surface of the Pacific Ocean. NE