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Joke # 9: Answer Key for Level 1
Current technology makes it extremely difficult to draw lines, etc. from word to word in web documents. In Level One, I have therefore indicated words modified by prepositional phrases in following brackets. These brackets will be deleted in the answer keys to subsequent levels.
 
     A sailor's wife approached the pastor {of her church} 

[Adjective to "pastor"] just as he was stepping {into the pulpit} 

[Adverb to "was stepping"], and handed him a note. The note 

said, "Harold Peat, having gone {to sea} [Adverb to "having 

gone"], his wife requests the congregation to pray {for his 

safety} [Adverb to "to pray"]."

     The minister hastily unfolded the note, and {with his 

mind} [Adverb to "announced"] {on the sermon} [Adjective to 

"mind"][Note #1] he was aboutNote #2] to make, he announced: 

"Harold Peat, having gone to see  his wife, requests the 

congregation to pray {for his safety} [Adverb to "to pray"]."
 

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Note

1. There is a much better explanation of the relationship between "on the sermon" and "with his mind," but we won't get to it until Level Five.

2. "About" here means something like "ready," so it does not function as a preposition. This is another of those points that some grammarians can spend years arguing about, without reaching agreement, but I suggest that such arguments belong in college linguistics courses, not in our K-12 classrooms.
 

Progress:
Total Words = 77 Words %
L1: In Prep Phrases  20  26

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