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Phrases Review

A. HIGHLIGHT the appositive or appositive phrase in each sentence.UNDERLINE the noun/pronoun it identifies or explains. DIAGRAM SENTENCES 1,2,3,4,5,6

1. Her father, a professional tennis player, taught her well.

2. The painting Starry Night is by artist Vincent Van Gogh

3.Bob, his friend's brother, won the lottery.

4. The car, a Corvette, rumbled down the road.

5. Neil, the drummer for a successful rock band, performed at the stadium.

6. Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night’s Dream became popular during the Elizabethan time period.

7. The ship H.M.S Bounty had a mutiny many years ago.

8. The star Polaris has guided travelers throughout history.

9. In front of his house, John looked for his dog Casey.

10. The novel A Separate Peace is one of author John Knowles' greatest works.

11. Her sister Carrie wears ankle bracelets every day.

12. Despite winning many events, Jim Thorpe, a native American, did not receive any medals.

13. His house along the road, a mansion, drew much attention.

14. The Fender Stratocaster, an exceptionally well made American guitar, is very popular even in other countries.

15. Fencing, an interesting and unusual sport, takes many years to master.

B. Write 10 sentences using prepositional phrases. HIGHLIGHT the Prepositional Phrase in each sentence. Then LABEL each prepositional phrase as ADJECTIVAL (adj.) OR ADVERBIAL (adv.).ANSWER ON PAPER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

C. Tell if the underlined phrases are appositives (A) or prepositional phrases (P).PUT (A) OR (P) AT THE END OF EACH SENTENCE.

1. A creative person is one who can process in new ways the informationdirectly at

hand--the ordinary sensory data available to all of us.

2. I fell asleep until I reached my destination, the new island.

3. The rain drove us into the church--our refuge, our strength, our only dry place.

4. Alcatraz island is covered with flowers now: orange and yellow nasturtiums,geraniums,sweet grass, blue iris, black-eyed Susans.

5. It was an ordinary farm, a calf-raising, haymaking farm, and very beautiful.

6. During the past few weeks, we have learned a lot about verbals, words that

look like verbs but aren’t.

7. As a child growing up on this plantation, I could not imagine this place, this house,

existing without the two of them here.

8. At the church social we gobbled strawberry shortcake, my favorite dessert.

9. My son, the policeman, will be visiting us next week.

10. The captain ordered the ship's carpenters to assemble the shallop, a large rowboat.

11. Walter, the artist and writer, is very attached to his mother, Mrs. Hammon.
12. The actor Paul Newman directed only one picture.
13. Elizabeth Teague, a sweet and lovable girl, grew up to be a famous artist.

14. Sweetbriar, a company known throughout the South, is considering a nationwide

advertising campaign.
15. John, an above-average student and talented musician, made his family proud.
16. The extremely popular American film Titanic was widely criticized for its mediocre script.
17. Citizen Kane, the greatest American film ever made, won only one Academy Award.

18. 60 Minutes, the TV news magazine program, featured a story on the popular singer

Whitney Houston.

19. The first example is that of the simple pendulum, a small mass hung on the end of a

light string.

20. Living matter is composed primarily of four elements: carbon, hydrogren, oxygen,

and nitrogen.

21. Neil Armstrong, the first man who walked on the moon, is a native of Ohio.

22. We students are happy with good grades.

23. Alfred Nobel, a Swedish chemist, was born in 1833.

24. The White House resides in Washington D.C., the nation's capital.

25. Mr. Smith, a well-respected lawyer, has just retired from active practice.

Combining with -ING Words (PRESENT PARTICIPLES)

There is another trick too that can help you become an expert in sentence building. Look at the way two sentences can be combined by adding -ING to one of the verbs.

A. Daring Donald hurt his knee.

B. Daring Donald jumped from the garage roof.

Combined Sentence Becomes:

Daring Donald, jumping from the garage roof, hurt his knee.

Or:

Jumping from the garage roof, daring Donald hurt his knee.

Notice in which cases commas were used.

You can make A PRESENT PARTICIPLES (-ING word) from almost any verb and use it as a sentence-combining word. Try it. You'll see.

Exercise 1:

Combine these sentences with PRESENT PARTICIPLES(-ING words). You may use them in either of the TWO places which have been modeled. Combine each set. Add commas where needed.

1. Mary Jane drives a sports car.

Mary Jane easily out-drags everybody else.

2. Sheila looked for the boy.

She found him in the trash can.

3. Carolyn feeds her guppies.

She notices that many of the little ones are missing.

4. We smiled nervously at Count Dracula.

We wished we had not gone to his castle.

5. Sally jumped from the top of the jungle gym.

Sally wore her Batgirl costume.

6. The baby smiled happily.

She smeared glue in her hair.

7. The parakeet amuses Orville.

The parakeet whistles "Dixie" in its cage.

8. The pig beats the heat.

The pig snorts contentedly in the mud.

9. Beth opens the surprise package.

She finds it contains only a rabbit-foot key chain.

10. Mr. Tattan has become rich.

He teaches spiders to make lace.