Harvey's Elementary Grammar and Composition · Lesson 42 (I) · Part 1: Part I: The elementary course

41. The phrase

Goal: Your child finds prepositions and their phrases, and can trade a phrase for a single word or a clause.

⏱ About 25 minutes · 7 steps

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You'll need

  • The book, open to this lesson
  • Paper and a pencil (or a slate)

What's in the book

Part I of Lesson 42 defines the phrase and gives a model for pointing out prepositions, nine sentences, a model analysis and eleven more sentences. It ends with phrases to replace by single words or clauses.

The lesson, step by step

  1. Review

    Ask your child to name eight prepositions.

  2. The new idea

    Read:

    A Phrase is a group of words consisting of a preposition and its object.

    Phrases are most commonly used as adjective or adverbial elements.

  3. Use the model

    The book's model sentence is:

    He came from France to America.

    Your child says: "From is a preposition; it shows the relation between its object and some other word."

  4. Find the prepositions

    Do some from the page:

    The boy went through the gate into the garden.

    He went to the doctor for advice.

    The light came through the stained windows of the old church.

  5. Swap a phrase

    The book's models:

    Henry studies his lessons with care = Henry studies his lessons carefully.

    Ice forms in cold weather = Ice forms when the weather is cold.

    Now try:

    The sailors weighed anchor at sunrise.

    I have written this letter in haste.

  6. Check together

    Check with the answers.

  7. Use it today

    Find three phrases in today's reading and say whether each tells which, where, when or how.

Afterwards

Analyze some of the page 64 sentences on another day, with the book's model "Habits of industry will lead to prosperity."

Answers to the book's problems

Prepositions: 1 in, of, of. 2 through, into. 3 in, of. 4 at, in. 5 over, into. 6 to, for. 7 to, of. 8 to, with, upon. 9 through, of. Phrase swaps (other answers possible): ...weighed anchor when the sun rose. The enraged lion struggled vainly. Flowers bloom when spring comes. Some seed fell where the ground was stony. The poor boy's face was disfigured. I have written this letter hastily.

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