Language
s phrases
handbook
worksheet 1 identifying prepositional phrases
exercise a
underline cach prepositional phrase in the following sentences.
examples 1. under certain conditions, scientists can tell what happens
during sleep
2. a person changes body position about a dozen times
during an average night of sleep.
1. in the laboratory, subjects have electrodes attached to their heads.
2. electrodes transmit signals from the brain.
3. these signals, called brain waves, are recorded on a graph.
4. after many experiments, scientists can now identify the shapes of certain
5. during deep sleep, brain waves of the subjects are large and very slow.
6. brain waves of dreaming subjects, however, are similar to those of awak
7. the brain waves form rapid, small, irregular patterns on the graph.
8. in addition, the eyes of the dreamers move rapidly under closed eyelids.
9. subjects awakened during dreaming sleep remember their dreams approx
eighty percent of the time.
caming sicep also occurs in cats, dogs, and elephants, and even in some reptiles.

The colonists had difficulty coming together to revolt because they

"the children's hour" by henry wadsworth longfellow between the dark and the daylight, when the night is beginning to lower, comes a pause in the day's occupations, that is known as the children's hour. i hear in the chamber above me the patter of little feet, the sound of a door that is opened, and voices soft and sweet. from my study i see in the lamplight, descending the broad hall stair, grave alice, and laughing allegra, and edith with golden hair. a whisper, and then a silence: yet i know by their merry eyes they are plotting and planning together to take me by surprise. a sudden rush from the stairway, a sudden raid from the hall! by three doors left unguarded they enter my castle wall! they climb up into my turret o'er the arms and back of my chair; if i try to escape, they surround me; they seem to be everywhere. they almost devour me with kisses, their arms about me entwine, till i think of the bishop of bingen in his mouse-tower on the rhine! do you think, o blue-eyed banditti, because you have scaled the wall, such an old mustache as i am is not a match for you all! i have you fast in my fortress, and will not let you depart, but put you down into the dungeon in the round-tower of my heart. and there will i keep you forever, yes, forever and a day, till the walls shall crumble to ruin, and moulder in dust away! which literary device does longfellow use most frequently in the poem? a. simile b. metaphor c. repetition d. personification

When a mother loses her child, she's — highly agitated from strong emotion. a scene is if there's lots of action with little order.