Pronouns

1. Pronouns Breaking the repetition

2. What are pronouns? • Words that replace nouns. • Identify persons, places, things, and ideas without renaming them. Christine texts me all the time. Good thing I have an unlimited plan, or she would be costing me tons of money.

3. Ante-what?! • Antecedents are the original nouns—the nouns being replaced • Antecedents and pronouns must match in number and gender Tracy makes the best triple layer cake. However, I’m not sure if they buy the cake mix or not.

4. Alison is an athlete. He trains every day. It should be “she” Many people attended the concert. He enjoyed it. It should be “they” I’m reading Hunger Games. This is a new book. Correct As Laura opened the door, they squeaked. • Should be “it”

5. Main Pronouns I/me You He, She, It/Him, Her, It We/Us They/Them Myself Yourself Himself/Herself/Itself Ourselves Themselves My Your His, Hers, Its Our Their Other pronouns: everybody, anything, one, something, several, other, all

6. PrepositionsWriting with Clarity

7. Prepositions • A word or word phrase that shows a relationship between a noun or pronoun and other words in a sentence. • A preposition will tell 4 things: • Where something is (location) • Where something is going (direction) • When something happens (time) • The relationship between a noun/pronoun and another word in a sentence

8. Preposition Phrases… • …under the tree. • …over the hill. • …for my mother. • …down the street.

9. Taking out the Preposition Phrase does not make the sentence incomplete. • Johnny walked home from school. • Troy Tulowitzki hit a homerun after the rain delay • Kobe Bryant won the game with a sixteen foot jumpshot. • The Virginia Tech Hokies played the Yellow Jackets down in Atlanta.

10. About Above Across After Below Along Alongside Among Before Beneath Against At Around Behind Beside(s) Between Beyond By Down During Common Prepositions

11. For From In Inside Into Like Near Of Off On Outside Over Past Since Through To Toward Under Until Up There’s more….

12. A few more… • Upon • With • Within • Without

13. Prepositions • You have FOUR minutes to write TWO, FIFTEEN word sentences. • Use a preposition in the sixth and twelfth positions for each sentence. (no repeats) Examples: • The famous golfing legend leaned over the tiny, white, dimpled ball on the ninth tee. • Pedro Feliz launched a ball towardMcCovey Cove, but it bounced off the brick wall.

14. Conjunctions

15. Conjunctions are words that connect individual words or groups of words (in other words, they conjoin). • Two MAIN types • Coordinating • Subordinating

16. Coordinating conjunctions They connect or “coordinate” two subjects or verbs in a sentence, or two sentences together I like peanut butter and jelly.  “And” is the coordinating conjunction and connects the nouns “peanut butter” and “jelly”

17. And easy way to remember For And Nor But Or Yet So

18. Subordinating conjunctions Part of a “cause-effect” model. The subordinating conjunction is the first word in the dependent clause. In a “cause-effect” model, the dependent clause is often the “cause” (but not always).

19. Because we were late to school, the teacher gave me a detention.  Because is the subordinating conjunction. You could also say “We received a detention because we were late to school. There is still a subordinating con junction in there…and it’s still “BECAUSE”! Although Paul had never seen his cousin, he wrote her a letter.  “Although” is the subordinating conjunction.

20. Interjections

21. An interjection (or exclamation) is an exclamatory word or phrase that can stand by itself. Interjections simply express emotion on the part of the speaker, although most interjections have clear definitions. Wow, ouch, whew are some examples. Filled pauses such as uh, er, um, are also considered interjections.

22. Oops, I dropped the glass. • Dangit! I really wanted to win that game! • Yes! I love Chik-Fil-A! • Whew! What a workout.