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=== prepositional phrase === | === prepositional phrase === | ||
* built around a preposition, which indicates time, place, or other relationship to the main clause or a noun | * built around a preposition, which indicates time, place, or other relationship to the main clause or a noun | ||
* prepositions | * prepositions never precede a verb | ||
* for SAT Writing identify prepositions in order | ** ex.: "The teacher about tells" or "The odor from stinks" makes no sense | ||
** however, prepositional phrase frequently precede or follow a verb, ex.: | |||
*** "The teacher tells ''about math''." | |||
** * "The odor ''from the garbage'' stinks overwhelmingly" | |||
* prepositions include: ''above, about, after, along, around, at, before, behind, below, beside, between, by, down, during, from, for, into, near, of, on, over, through, to'' (when suggesting a direction)'', toward, under, until, up, upon, with, without'' | |||
** see [https://englishpost.org/grammar-lessons-list-of-common-prepositions/ List of Common Prepositions (englishpost.org)] | |||
* for SAT Writing identify prepositions in order to: | |||
** to distinguish the subject of a sentence from other words that might be confused with the subject in wrong possible answers | ** to distinguish the subject of a sentence from other words that might be confused with the subject in wrong possible answers | ||
** to get rid of unimportant information in order to better read the sentence and answer the question | ** to get rid of unimportant information in order to better read the sentence and answer the question | ||
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<pre>Seawater seeping into fissures in the ocean floor is heated by underlying magma, and the heat drives chemical reactions that remove oxygen, sulfates, [5] [and remove] other chemicals from the water.</pre> | <pre>Seawater seeping into fissures in the ocean floor is heated by underlying magma, and the heat drives chemical reactions that remove oxygen, sulfates, [5] [and remove] other chemicals from the water.</pre> | ||
* we can identify the core of the sentence by ignoring the prepositions: | * we can identify the core of the sentence by ignoring the prepositions: | ||
** ''Seawater <s>seeping into fissures in the ocean floor</s> is heated <s>by underlying magma</s>, and the heat drives chemical reactions that remove oxygen, sulfates, [5] [and remove] other chemicals <s>from the water</s>.'' | ** ''Seawater <s>seeping into fissures in the ocean floor</s> is heated <s>by underlying magma</s>, and the heat drives chemical reactions that remove oxygen, sulfates, [5] [and remove] other chemicals <s>from the water</s>.'' which leaves us with: | ||
** ''Seawater is heated, and the heat drives chemical reactions that remove oxygen, sulfates, [5] [and remove] other chemicals'' | |||
** which allows us to eliminate possible answers more readily: | ** which allows us to eliminate possible answers more readily: | ||
<pre> | <pre> | ||