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Title: Basic English Grammar
Description: Basic English Grammar- subjects, verbs, and prepositional phrases.

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Class 1- Chapter 17
17a) Subject of Sentences
17b) Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases
17c) Helping, Linking, and Action Verbs

17a)

SUBJECTTHE SUBJECT OF A SENTENCE IS THE
WHO OR WHAT THE SENTENCE TALKS
ABOUT
...
IT
USUALLY COMES IN THE BEGINNING
OF THE SENTENCE

He was born in Mexico
...
Sometimes, like in the
examples below, there are prepositional phrases
...

In 1981, the cat jumped for the first time
...


Subjects can also be compound
...

New Hampshire and Maine are states
...


About
Above
According
to
Across

17b) PREPOSITIONS

Prepositions are those such as the ones on the
side of the page
...
Such as

Onto
Out
Outside
Over
Through

After

Over the counter,

Gains

Under the box,

To

Inside the car,

Toward

Along
Among
Around
As
At

Under

The object that our propositions in those phrases were
describing are called the object of the preposition and
make the preposition into a prepositional phrase
...


By
Despite
During
Except

At the end of the movie, after a tiring chase, the
dragon escapes
...


For
From
In
Inside
Into
Near
Of
Off
On

Underneath
Until
Up
Upon

Behind
Below

Throughout

You may have noticed that after prepositional phrases,
there is ALWAYS a comma
...
You are
probably most familiar with action verbs, but you use linking and
helping every day without knowing it
...

She works at staples
...


Linking Verbs:
act, appear, am, is, are, were, was, become, feel, get, grow, look,
remain, seem, smell, sound, taste, turn

*Linking verbs are verbs that do not show action
...
It helps you know what
the subject is, or was, or will be, or seems to be
...

Looks isn’t an action verb, yet there is no other word that
could be the verb of this sentence, and it is a complete sentence
...
It links blurry to photocopy,
describing it for you
...
They typically give a timeframe or degree
...

You will work hard
...

Helping verbs can be tricky, like in that last example how
‘really’ wasn’t part of the verb phrase
...
Instead of ‘Mike should have
gone’ you’d have ‘Mike going’
Title: Basic English Grammar
Description: Basic English Grammar- subjects, verbs, and prepositional phrases.