Prepositions, Conjunctions, Interjections

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Prepositions, Conjunctions, Interjections

• American Lit

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Prepositions

• Preposition word that relates the noun or
  pronoun that appears with it to another word in
  the sentence
• -prepositions show relationships between separate
  things
•  See chart on pg. 388

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•  Prepositional Phrases contains a prep. and a
  noun or pronoun known as the object of the prep.
• Who is the famous actor in the movie?
• We walked around the building.
• I am the one who called inside the house.

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Preposition or Adverb?

• Remember that a prep. must appear with an object
  of the prep.
•  Joe Louis sidled around the ring.
• The boxer slowly looked around.
• He fell down the stairs.
• He fell down.

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Conjunctions

• Conjunction word used to connect other words or
  groups of words
• There are three kinds of conjunctions
  coordinating, correlative, and subordinating
• Coordinating these connect words or groups of
  words
• EX Melody and Susie went to see the movie. 
• These conjunctions are and, but, for, nor, or,
  so, yet

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• Correlative also join equal elements in
  sentences, but they always work in pairs
• EX He was not only intelligent, but also
  handsome.
• These conjunctions are bothand, not only. but
  also, eitheror, neither.nor, whether.or

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• Subordinating join two complete ideas by making
  one of the ideas subordinate (dependant) on the
  other
• EX You may go to the game if you wash the
  dishes.
• See chart on pg. 391

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• Conjunctive Adverbs used as conjunctions to
  connect complete ideas. Often used as
  transitions, creating a bridge between different
  ideas by showing comparisons, contrasts, or
  results.
•  EX The film was great nevertheless, I prefer
  the book.
•  See chart on pg. 392

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Interjection

• Interjection word that expresses feeling or
  emotion and functions independently of a sentence
• can express a variety of feelings such as joy,
  fear, anger, surprise, exhaustion, dismay, or
  sorrow 
• Interjections are often set off from the rest of
  the sentence by a comma or exclamation point
• Some interjections include ah, aha, alas, dear,
  goodness, gracious, hey, hurrah, oh, ouch, psst,
  tsk, well, whew, wow