Phrase Toolbox

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Phrase Toolbox

• Time to Add the Phrases

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Tell me 10 things you know

• Before Mike blew out the candles on his birthday
  cake, he made a special wish.

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Subordinate Clauses

• Definition
• Punctuation?

• Subordinating conjunction noun and a verb
• Attach a subordinating clause to an independent
  clause (sentence) with a comma

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Subordinate Conjunctions

• Examples of Subordinating Conjunctions

• Provided (that)  
• As soon as
• Although
• Since
• While
• Because
• So that
• Before
• Even if
• Even though
• Though
• After
• How
• Although
• If
• Unless
• As 
• Until
• In order to

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Subordinate Clauses

• Examples of Subordinate Clauses

• As soon as the bell rang,
• Since it is raining outside,
• Before I ask her out,
• Even though I want pizza,
• After she saved 100,
• Unless Billy scores a touchdown,
• Now that the school year has begun,

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Independent Clauses

• Independent Clauses
• Examples

• A complete sentence (noun verb)
• ? The bell rang.
• It is raining outside.
• I asked her out.
• I want pizza.
• She saved 100.
• Billy scores a touchdown.
• The school year has begun.

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So Whats the Difference?

• Independent Clauses
• Subordinate Clauses

• A are complete sentences (noun verb)
• Are not complete sentences and have to be joined
  to an independent clause (sentence) with a comma.

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Prepositional Phrases

• Prepositional Phrases

• Snoopy moved about his house.
• He looked at the clouds above his house.
• He ran across the yard and chased after a cat.
• He sat along the fence.
• Snoopy sat at the back door.
• He dug a hole behind the house.
• He walked down the path.

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Infinitive Phrases (to verb)

• Examples of Infinitive Phrases
• (just write 10 examples)

• to act
• to believe
• to call
• to decide
• to elect
• to flail
• to guess
• to heave
• to inquire
• to jest
• to kneel
• to lament
• to mush
• to notice
• to obscure
• to posterize
• to quench
• to relish
• to sulk

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So Whats the Difference?

• Clause
• Phrase

• Has subject and a verb
• Does not have a subject and a verb

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Can You Match Them?

• Phrases and Clauses

• Examples

• Subordinate Clause
• Independent Clause
• Prepositional Phrase
• Infinitive Phrase

• At the store
• Before I went home,
• I stopped
• To Buy

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Your Assignment (separate sheet)

• Model

a subordinate clause, an independent clause an
infinitive phrase and a prepositional phrase, an
infinitive phrase and a prepositional phrase, an
infinitive phrase and a prepositional phrase, an
infinitive phrase and a prepositional phrase, a
final independent clause.

• Example

When I grow up, I want to dance over a
rainbow, to climb above the clouds, to soar
beside the birds, to sail with the stars, These
are the dreams of my heart.
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List these after the poem

• List 5 Favorite Movies

• What type of book?

• 1.
• 2.
• 3.
• 4.
• 5.

• Real or fantasy?
• Past, present, or future?
• Scary, romantic, action, etc.?