Lesson overview

Introduction
UNIVERSAL
Middle years and up
prepositions
prepositional phrases
functional grammar
grammar
expansion
circumstances
detail
word groups
spatial relationships
time and place
giving reasons
giving methods
accompaniment
describing manner
comparisons
showing relationships
action targets
roles
belonging
composition
exceptions
multi word prepositions
gerunds
question word clauses
chaining
nesting
grammatical hierarchy
layering prepositional phrases
balancing detail with readability
parts of speech
This lesson introduces prepositions and prepositional phrases, then uses rewrite activities to show the variety of circumstances and meanings that prepositional phrases can communicate, including where, when, in what way, and who with. This is a long lesson! We cover a lot of ground, and make a number of digressions to talk about the confusing nature of prepositions, adverbs and conjunctions. By the end, students should have a good understanding of how prepositional phrases create meaning and can be used to expand detail.