Week 8- EEL-Fun with Prepositions!

Greetings fellow Essentials families.
 Found here is an overview of our class together.

Our focus this week is: Compound Structure, Interrogative, Prepositions, S-Vt-DO, Charts J, E, G, I

After prayer we went over the 8 parts of speech. We have covered almost all of these in class.
Since our focus is prepositions, who can define a preposition for me? (La Cucaracha)
Sing Preposition Song from Cycle 1. Refer to Chart J.

Compound Interrogative Sentences
What is an interrogative sentence? Asks a question.
What is a compound sentence? Consists of two independent clauses joined by a coordinating conjunction.

We took a compound sentence and reviewed the three ways to make a Declarative sentence into an Interrogative sentence.
Example: Jesus loves me and He loves you.
1) Add a question mark: Jesus loves me and He loves you?
2) Use interrogative pronouns: Who loves me and who loves you?
3) Use helping verbs: Does Jesus love me and does he love you?

Let's take out our Analytical Task sheets to label and diagram #3 above.
One help we discussed was rewriting an interrogative into a declarative. This puts the verbs together making it easier for the students to handle them.

Prepositional Phrases
We then defined a prepositional phrase: consisting of a preposition, its object, and any modifiers that may exist between them and functions as an adverb or an adjective in a sentence.
Remember with prepositional phrases you always have a preposition and an object of the preposition.

In these examples, let's identify the preposition and it's object.
Through the window
Over the hill
Under the tree
We recalled, using our song sheets, what adverbs and adjectives were and what questions they answered. Then we worked with examples.

The boy hugged his mother in the morning.
Do you see a prepositional phrase here?
What is the preposition? What is its object? In what?
Is this phrase acting as an adjective or an adverb? Adverb

The boy in the blue striped shirt hugged his mother.
Do you see a prepositional phrase here?
What is the preposition?
What is its object? In what?
Is this phrase acting as an adverb or an adjective?

How do we diagram these?