First, study the instructional material on prepositional phrases, and on compounding. Glance at the material on ellipsis. Then select any exercise. The directions are always the same: Place parentheses ( ) around every prepositional phrase.
Once you have completed an exercise, go back to the Main Menu of Exercises to get the answer key. (Yes, I have intentionally made it difficult to get to them.) Keep doing these exercises until you get at least two completely (100%) correct. Then you can move on to Level Two.
Begin with some jokes?
Try a few of Aesop's Fables?
Opening Paragraphs of Famous Novels
* Because jokes often imitate oral language, note the words of Isaac Asimov: "Remember, good spoken English is far less tolerant of long sentences and complicated subordinate clauses than good written English is, and far more tolerant of incomplete sentences and grammatical imprecision. Where written English must depend on careful punctuation, spoken English must depend on intonation, facial expression, and even gesticulation." (Isaac Asimov's Treasury of Humor. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1971. 58.) |
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