Airplanes and Clouds

Mr. Griot introduces language arts by exploring prepositions and prepositional phrases. He uses the 'airplane test' to help identify prepositions, demonstrating with examples like 'over', 'under', and 'near'. The video also covers identifying prepositions in sentences and understanding prepositional phrases, which start with a preposition and end with a noun or pronoun. The lesson concludes with a recap of key concepts and the importance of prepositions in sentence structure.

What is the purpose of a preposition in a sentence?

• To describe the subject

• To show the relationship between words

• To modify verbs

• To indicate the tense

Which of the following words is an exception to the airplane test?

• Over

• Under

• Of

• Near

In the sentence 'John ran to the store', what is the preposition?

• John

• Ran

• To

• Store

What is a prepositional phrase?

• A sentence that describes an action

• A single word that modifies a verb

• A phrase that contains a verb and a subject

• A group of words that begins with a preposition and ends with a noun or pronoun

Identify the prepositional phrase in the sentence: 'The dog ran from the boy.'

• The boy

• The dog

• Ran from

• From the boy

In the sentence 'In the morning we go to school', what is the object of the preposition in the first prepositional phrase?

• In

• Morning

• We

• School

Which of the following sentences contains two prepositional phrases?

• He is happy.

• They are running.

• She walked quickly.

• The cat played with a ball of yarn.