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Grade 6: Unit 7 Prepositional Phrases (Use with pupil book pages 316–318.)Skill: Students will identify prepositional phrases, prepositions, and objects

of prepositions.

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Write each prepositional phrase. Underline the preposition once and the object of the preposition twice.

1. The word robot comes from a play by Karel C̆apek.

2. A native of Europe, C̆apek became famous throughout the world.

3. In his play, robots were used as servants and helpers.

4. After a time, these mechanical devices turned against their creators.

5. Today robots perform tasks in offices, factories, and laboratories.

6. Before the end of this century, robots may work for us at home.

7. With their mechanical arms, they could vacuum under tables and chairs.

8. They could dust throughout the house and clean along the windowsills.

9. Will we depend too much on them for their help?

10. In time, perhaps robots will help children with their homework.

prep. obj. prep. obj. obj.

The age of robots is here. What does that mean to you and me?prepositional phrase prepositional phrase

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136 Grade 6: Unit 7 Prepositional Phrases (Use with pupil book pages 316–318.)Skill: Students will use prepositional phrases in sentences.

HELP! There is a short circuit in your robot, Y-Knot. His programs are mixed-up, and he can’t find his way through your house. Write a list of six instruc-tions, telling Y-Knot how to get from the bedroom to the kitchen. Include aprepositional phrase in each instruction. Use the map of the house below tohelp you.

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An Advertisement

It is the year 2050. You write advertisements for an ad agency. One of yourclients manufactures robot housekeepers. Write an advertisement, stating the reasonswhy every household should own a robot. Use at least five prepositional phrases inyour sentences. Underline each prepositional phrase.

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Adjective Phrases

GrammarName

Grade 6: Unit 7 Prepositional Phrases (Use with pupil book pages 319–321.)Skill: Students will identify adjective phrases and the words that they modify.

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Write the adjective phrase in each sentence. Then write the noun or the pronoun that it modifies.

1. Education during colonial times was inadequate.

2. Children of rich plantation owners were usually tutored.

3. Children from poor families became apprentices.

4. A teacher in an elementary school needed no special education.

5. Anyone with any schooling could teach.

6. One teacher taught all the children from the surrounding area.

7. Salaries for the teacher were very low.

8. Conditions inside the schoolhouse were terrible.

9. Wooden benches along the walls were often the only furniture.

10. Only those near the fireplace or stove kept warm.

Temperatures inside the schoolhouse were freezing.

Someone beside the stove stoked the fire.

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A hornbook was a small, flat, wooden board used in colonial schools. A papercontaining the day’s lesson was attached to each hornbook. Look at the hornbooks below. Color the hornbooks that contain prepositional phrases.

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Now number the hornbooks in each row to show the order in which the wordswould appear in a sentence. Be sure that the prepositional phrases describenouns or pronouns. Write each sentence below.

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Now replace each prepositional phrase with one of your own. Write your newsentences on another piece of paper.

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138 Grade 6: Unit 7 Prepositional Phrases (Use with pupil book pages 319–321.)Skill: Students will use adjective phrases in sentences.

Adjective Phrases (continued from page 137)

A Letter

Suppose you are a student in colonial days. Write a letter to a friend, describingyour studies, the teacher, and the schoolhouse. Use a prepositional phrase todescribe a noun or a pronoun in each sentence of your letter. Underline each prepositional phrase.

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Adverb Phrases

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Grade 6: Unit 7 Prepositional Phrases (Use with pupil book pages 322–324.)Skill: Students will identify adverb phrases and the words that they modify.

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Write each adverb phrase and the word or words that it modifies.

1. Throughout the centuries, people have played games.

2. Games are played by only one person or with several people.

3. Players play board games on specially marked boards.

4. In Japan people have played a game called go for three thousand years.

5. Word games and tile games depend on either luck or skill.

6. Mahjong, a tile game, is similar to some card games.

7. The tiles are engraved with complicated Chinese symbols.

8. These games are popular among both children and adults.

9. People are always ready for an exciting contest.

10. Excited contestants will often play far into the night.

We play games during the weekend. (modifies the verb play)

Board games are fun for us. (modifies the adjective fun)

We often play early in the morning. (modifies the adverb early)

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140 Grade 6: Unit 7 Prepositional Phrases (Use with pupil book pages 322–324.)Skill: Students will use adverb phrases in sentences.

Adverb Phrases (continued from page 139)

The children below are playing hide-and-seek. Find out which child is “it” andwhere the other children are hiding. Use the clues below the chart to help youfind these answers. Place an X under each category that you eliminate. Thendraw a star in the box that shows where each child is during the game.

CLUES

• George can see a girl hiding beside the fence.

• Miguel can’t see the bush from his position.

• Erica can see the girl who is “it” and the boy behind the bush.

Now write four sentences, telling where each child is standing or hiding. Use aprepositional phrase in each sentence.

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Instructions

Think of a game that you and your friends enjoy playing. It could be a boardgame, a ball game, or a word game. Write a list of instructions for playing the game.In each sentence, use a prepositional phrase that modifies a verb, an adjective, or anadverb. Underline the prepositional phrases.

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It Behind the Bush Beside the Fence Under the Bench

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Grade 6: Unit 7 Prepositional Phrases (Use with pupil book pages 325–326.)Skill: Students will elaborate sentences using prepositional phrases.

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Elaborating Sentences 1–10. Elaborate each underlined sentence with one or moreprepositional phrases.

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Mr. Logan drives into town.On the first of every month, Mr. Logandrives into town in his antique car.

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Megan arrived at swim practice.Her teammates were already in thewater. Megan jumped in. She waitedfor instructions. The coach gave thestart-up signal. The swimmers begantheir warm-up sets. They waited forthe next signal. Practice lasted for two hours.

Megan was exhausted. She got out of the pool. She went into the

locker room. She changed into her bluejeans and sweatshirt. Megan left.

Megan and her friends were hungry. They decided to eat.Everyone had a salad. Megan orderedhers. They talked about next week’sswim meet. They all went home to rest.

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Skill: Students will combine sentences, using prepositional phrases.

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Combining Sentences 11–16. Use prepositional phrases to combine each pair of underlined sentences.

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The tennis players competed. Theycompeted at Wimbledon. They played forfive hours.At Wimbledon, the tennis playerscompeted for five hours.

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Professional tennis players practice hard. They practice manyhours a day. Tennis players around the world follow this pattern.Players hit the ball. They work on force, speed, and accuracy. Tennisis often a game of inches.

Specific rules are followed. The same is true for all sports. Onerule determines where the ball can be served. A tennis player servesthe ball. It must land in a designated area. A referee calls each game.He or she is stationed at the net.

In addition to rules, tennis has certain traditions. Tennis playersshake hands. They do this when a tennis match ends.

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Preposition or Adverb?

GrammarName

Grade 6: Unit 7 Prepositional Phrases (Use with pupil book pages 327–329.)Skill: Students will distinguish between adverbs and prepositions.

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Underline the prepositional phrase or the adverb in each sentence. Then label eachone prepositional phrase or adverb.

1. The exhausted farmer sat by the barn door.

2. Olga and I walked by slowly.

3. Several animals were huddled inside.

4. The farmer invited us in.

5. The air inside the barn was stuffy.

6. My friend and I wandered about cautiously.

7. Harnesses and saddles were scattered around.

8. Wooden stalls were constructed along the walls.

9. A horse was in every stall.

10. We heard someone talking and looked up.

11. The farmer’s son stood in the loft.

12. Olga climbed up the ladder.

13. I followed along and listened.

14. Austin spoke about the farm and his work.

15. Farm hands worked behind him.

16. One pitched hay over the side.

17. Another spread it around the stalls.

18. One farm hand strolled over and said hello.

19. Austin walked on and continued working.

20. We stayed behind and watched the farm hands.

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Olga waited near the gate.

No one came near.

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144 Grade 6: Unit 7 Prepositional Phrases (Use with pupil book pages 327–329.)Skill: Students will use prepositions and adverbs correctly in sentences.

Preposition or Adverb? (continued from page 143)

Help Farmer Brenna solve his problem. He needs to take his apples, his pig,and his fox to his farm. In order to get to his farm, he must row across theriver. His boat, however, is only large enough for him and one other thing.Unfortunately, the farmer cannot leave the pig and the apples alone, or thepig will eat the apples. He also cannot leave the pig and the fox alone, or thefox will eat the pig.

Write your solution to Farmer Brenna’s problem. Use words that can be usedboth as prepositions and as adverbs.

A Personal Narrative

Write about a visit you have made to a place where people work. The workplacecould be a farm, a factory, a construction site, or an office. Describe the work yousaw being done. Include words used as adverbs and prepositions in your narrative.Underline the adverbs once and the prepositions twice.

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Grade 6: Unit 7 Prepositional Phrases (Use with pupil book pages 330–332.)Skill: Students will use in, into, and of correctly.

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Rewrite the sentences, using prepositions correctly.

1. The football flew in the player’s hands.

2. Jim Marshall was into the wrong part of the field.

3. He ran in the wrong end zone.

4. He must of been very embarrassed.

5. He shouldn’t of made that mistake.

6. He could of lost the game for the Minnesota Vikings.

7. At the end of the game, some players ran out from the sidelines and in the field.

8. The game was written about into the newspaper.

9. Jim Marshall must of hated reading about the game.

10. Luckily, in the next game he ran into the right direction for two touchdowns.

Everyone in the stands was amazed.The ball sailed into the air.

The player must of been confused. The player must have been confused.

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146 Grade 6: Unit 7 Prepositional Phrases (Use with pupil book pages 330–332.)Skill: Students will use in, into, and of in sentences.

Using Prepositions Correctly (continued from page 145)

The sentences below tell about famous “mistakes” in history. First, write the name of each “mistake” or the person who made it. Then rewrite eachsentence correctly. Be sure to use in, into, and of correctly.

1. This tower should of been straight.

2. He could of been electrocuted in that lightning storm.

3. This ship was into the North Atlantic and hit an iceberg.

4. He must of thought that he had reached India.

A Narrative

Think about a time you either made a big mistake or witnessed a big mistake.What exactly happened? Why? How did you feel? What were the consequences ofthe mistake?

Write a story telling about the mistake. Make sure to include enough details sothat the reader can easily picture what happened. Use the prepositions in and intoand the verb forms such as should have, could have, may have, must have, mighthave, and would have.

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Grade 6: Unit 7 Prepositional Phrases (Use with pupil book page 333.)Skill: Students will show understanding of idioms.

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We thought we were in the money until we got wind

of the taxes we would have to pay.

rich were told

I was on pins and needles when the time came to hand in my book

report. I had a lot riding on this paper, and if I didn’t get a decent grade,

my parents would be on my back for the rest of the semester. All term

long I was able to get along by studying my grammar text two hours a

week. I kept a close eye on my quiz scores and never turned down help

from the tutor my English teacher, Mrs. Spata, was able to get for me.

Despite all that, my work was going downhill. I held my tongue when my

father challenged me to do better on this book report. I had to pass this

one or it would be summer school down the line. Lucky thing I aced it.

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