Sentence Composing

1
Sentence Composing

• Prepositional Phrases

2
(No Transcript)
3

• Deleted Sentence Parts

• Adding in the Missing Parts

• A few brave souls sneak to harvest
• apples.
• Gale holds up a loaf.
• They ran an apothecary shop.

• In the autumn, a few brave souls
• sneak into the woods to harvest
• Apples.
• Gale holds up a loaf of bread with
• an arrow stuck in it.
• They ran an apothecary shop in
• the nicer part of District 12.
• Suzanne Collins
• The Hunger Games

4
Characteristics of Prepositional Phrases

• Prepositional Phrases are sentence parts that
  describe
• people, objects, or actions.
• Most begin with the following prepositions in,
  before,
• after, at, across, inside, outside, between,
  within,
• behind, by, under, around, down, into, against,
  near,
• through, to, like, except, over, up, without,
  with, toward,
• of, and for.

5
Single Prepositional Phrases

• At home, I find my mother and sister ready to go.
• At one o clock, we head for the square.
• Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
• Comma Rule One phrase that begins, add one comma
  
• where it ends.

6
Two or More in a Row

• In the hole in the ground, there lived a hobbit.
• J.R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
• Comma Rule Two or more phrases in a row, add one
  
• comma where it needs to go.

7
Sentence Locations

• Sentence Openers
• In punishment for the uprising, each of the
  twelve
• districts must provide one girl and one boy,
  called tributes,
• to participate.
• Sentence Closers
• I find myself standing in a clump of sixteens
  from the
• Seam. Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

8
Sentence Locations

• Subject-Verb Splits
• Bearded men, in sad-colored garments and gray,
  steeple-
• crowned hats, intermixed with women.
• Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

9
Works Cited

• Collins, Suzanne. The Hunger Games. New York
• Scholastic, 2008.
• Killgallon, Don. Sentence Composing for High
  School.
• Portsmouth Boynton/Cook Publishers, 1998.