This week we'll explore adverbs and prepositions. Last week we talked about how adjectives can make our writing lush and descriptive, but they can sometimes be overused (which is probably why Mark Twain once said, "When you see an adjective, kill it"). Just as strong, specific nouns can eliminate unnecessary adjectives, strong verbs can help writers avoid unnecessary adverbs. (I had a writing teacher who taught me to question every adverb.) Of course, we need prepositional phrases, those phrases that show the relationship between various nouns and pronouns in a sentence. A preposition trick I learned once was to think of prepositional phrases as anywhere a squirrel can go in relation to a hollow tree (up the tree, in the tree, on the tree, over the tree, under the tree, through the tree...).
Some of the materials we'll use this week include the following:
Adverbs Notes and Practice
Nouns through Adverbs Review
Adverbs Writing Prompts
Prepositions Notes and Practice
Your Choice Prepositions
Prepositions Writing Prompts
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