Prepositional Phrases – Graphic Grammar Lesson 2 – Print & Digital

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Do you want your students to understand basic grammar without spending a ton of time on it? Have you ever struggled teaching the rocket ship diagramming method?

This second lesson builds on the parts of speech lesson and serves as a general overview of prepositional phrases: identifying them and labelling them. Their use as modifiers is in a much later lesson. By first identifying prepositional phrases, students have ruled out many of the nouns and pronouns that they could identify as the subject or predicate complement. It is appropriate for all grade levels 4-12 and has simple language for older students who struggle with English.

This lesson on prepositional phrases includes:

• detailed teacher instructions

• teaching notes slideshow (Google Slides™️)

• Prepositions Graphic (from my Graphic Grammar Flipbook)

• a student exercise handout (Print and Digital-Google Slides™️)

• an answer key to student exercises

• a second answer key labeling all Parts of Speech in the exercise

• a quiz for assessment (Print and Digital-Google Slides™️)

• an answer key to the quiz

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This series of lessons covers simple subject and predicate, modifiers, prepositional phrases, conjunctions/compound, and predicate complements (direct objects, indirect objects, objective complements, predicate nominatives/nouns, and predicate adjectives). Your students will be diagramming without having to draw charts OR rewrite the sentence!

By teaching this series in order and using the provided graphics (from my Graphic Grammar Flipbook) as guides and reference tools, you will be able to teach basic grammar in several weeks. Each lesson reviews previous lessons to give students the opportunity to build their skills progressively. I developed this sequence and process for a grammar and composition class, and all levels of students mastered these skills. This demystified English for ESL students because I use simple language in the sentences, and the focus is entirely on word function and sentence construction.

The complete instructions for faux diagramming for Series 1:

• Circle all conjunctions [FANBOYS & pairs].

• Mark all (prepositional phrases) with parentheses.

• Label objects of the preposition OP.

• Underline the simple subject once.

• Underline the main verb and any helping verbs twice.

• Label the main verb Action [AV] or Linking [LV].

• Label complements in the predicate: DO, IO, OC, PN, PA.

• Draw an arrow from the modifier to the word it modifies.

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Series 1 includes the lesson sequence:

1-Parts of Speech

2-Prepositional Phrases

3-Conjunctions and Compound

4-Kinds of Nouns

5-The Sentence

6-Compound Subjects and Verbs

7-Modifiers (Adjectives and Adverbs)

8-Verbs: Action or Linking

9-Direct Objects

10-Indirect Objects

11-Objective Complements

12-Compound Review

13-Predicate Nominatives (Nouns)

14-Predicate Adjectives

15-Predicate Complement Review (DO, IO, OC, PN, & PA)

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