Monday, November 15, 2010

Courage is continuing in the face of failure.

All you need to do today is find every prepositional phrase and tell me if it is functioning as an adjective or adverb.
1. The girl in the video kept trying her best through the whole race.
2. Continuing in the face of failure takes courage on an epic scale.
3. Alexis, the then-8th grader in lane two, ran the track again after this video.
4. Allegedly, she ran the hurdles with no faceplants on her second attempt.

 
 Parts of Speech & Grammar
This is how you find the subject of a sentence.
This is how you find the verb.
This is how you find the direct object.

This is the definition of an indirect object NEW as of 11/3
This is what a predicate nominative is.
This is what an implied subject is.
This is the adjective scale of intensity. 
This is an appositive. 
These are prepositional phrases 
This is the passive voice. Fix it, it's all Rule of Five now.

This is a gerund, which is a verbal.

Punctuation
Here is where you find the seven rules for commas. Scroll to the bottom of the page for the links.

Literary Terms
This is the definition of irony
This is the definition of 'schools of criticism.
This is the definition of satire
This is the definition of plot structure. 

This is the definition of symbolism
 

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