Titles and prepositions

Titles and prepositions

Follow the directions on each slide.

Watch the video to review the rules for writing titles correctly.

Multiple Choice

Which sentence is capitalized correctly?

• Last night, I began the chapter in Black Beauty entitled going for the doctor.

• Last night, I began the chapter in black beauty entitled going for the doctor.

• Last night, I began the chapter in Black Beauty entitled Going For the Doctor.

Multiple Choice

Which sentence is capitalized correctly?

• Jim’s grandmother gave him a subscription to National Geographic magazine.

• Jim’s grandmother gave him a subscription to National Geographic Magazine.

• Jim’s Grandmother gave him a subscription to national geographic magazine.

Watch the video to review the rules for punctuating titles correctly.

Multiple Choice

Choose the sentence that is written correctly.

• Edgar Allen Poe wrote many short stories such as The Tell-Tale Heart.

• I read an article in the

  Chicago Tribune

  titled “The Best Places for Pizza.”

• The family watched the movie, "The Wizard of Oz" on television

Multiple Choice

Choose the sentence that is written correctly.

• The Washington Post newspaper was founded in 1877.

• I think the book Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone was better than Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

• The" Mona Lisa" hangs in Paris, France at the Louvre Museum.

Watch the video to review what prepositional phrases are.

Multiple Choice

Add a prepositional phrase to the following sentence that answers the question why.

The Nez Perce will wait _________

• until dark

• near the valley

• to move past the soldiers

Multiple Choice

Look at the underlined prepositional phrase. What kind of extra detail is it giving us?

Looking Glass says, “We told the chief of the Blue Coats that we had only friendship for the people of Montana.”

• which one

• when

• where

• what kind

• how