Warm-up1. Copy your HW.2. In your spiral notebook,

explain WHAT SOAPSTone is and why we use it?

Warm-up1. Copy your HW.2. In your spiral notebook,

record a NEW vocabulary term from A Tale; define this term.

Prepositions/Prepositional Phrases

1. Turn to page 74 in the ORANGE grammar bible.2. Read and take notes on prepositions.3. What are they?4. How do they function in a sentence?5. Write the commonly used prepositions in your

spiral notebook.6. Complete exercise 15.7. You will need to LABEL prepositions and

p/phrases in your SB book (paragraphs 7 and 10).

Preposition Notes

1. Definition: a preposition is a word used to show the relationship of a noun or a pronoun TO some other word in the sentence.

2. Examples:3. The package UNDER the tree is mine4. The package IN the tree is mine.5. The package NEAR the tree is mine.

Most Commonly used Prepositions

aboard about above across after against along amid among around at before behind below

beneath beside between beyond by down during except for

from in into like near of off on over past

Since through throughout to toward under underneath until unto

up upon with within without

Preposition PracticeIn your spiral notebook, number from 1-10 and record the prepositions.1. Mar, the god of war, is perhaps the most Roam god

in Roman mythology.2. Many Roman gods were borrowed from Greek

mythology.3. According to legends, Mars was the father of

Romulus and Remus, twin brothers.4. When the twins were babies, an evil ruler threw

them into the Tiber River.5. Romulus and Remus were rescued from the river,

then were fed by a wolf, and were raised under the care of a shepherd.

Preposition Practice6. The twins fought against each other in a deadly rivalry.7. Instead of working with his brother,

Romulus killed Remus.8. It is said that Romulus founded the city of

Rome around 753. B. C.9. Throughout the centuries, people have

read about the legend of Romulus and Remus.

10. Out of hundreds of legends, this one has remained among the best known.