Visual Kinestic Simple Sentences pt 2 of Grammar with Leslie

Welcome back to the Leslie Ormandy blog. Last week I began by introducing viewers to the very basics of simple sentences -- the subject noun, verb, and together we discovered where the verb hides when you are trying to find it in your sentences (inside the subject noun). I showed how the verb is actually fairly easy to locate in a sentence though drawing the sentence. For instance, in the image at left you see "The boy stood." By drawing the sentence, you find out that the part you are drawing is the subject, and the verb is hidden inside him. One can not draw a verb. Those of you "in the know" understand that there are other parts of a sentence that one can not draw, but a person whose language has always been English will instinctively draw first the subject noun. Well, at least 90% of the time amongst my own student pool of observation.

This week the lesson advances to discover the next piece of the simple sentence -- object nouns and prepositions. Watch the video over on "Grammar with Leslie" over at YouTube, then come back -- the list of words you need is below, as are some sample easy sentences to draw. Video link: http://youtu.be/pBkcxJinqMo

Common prepositions -- and I advise making or buying flashcards and memorizing them since they feel like verbs are:

about above across after among around at before behind below beneath beside between by down during except for from in into of off on over since through through to toward under up with without

Practice sentences:

1. The cat lazed on the pillow.
2. The dog ran after the cat.
3. The boy bounced the ball.
4. The girl ate a cookie.
5. The vampire chased the victim.

(Do you notice how many of the subject and object nouns have an article (A, An, The) in front of them?)

Now come up with some of your own. If you don't practice, you don't learn. But the rule is, if you can't label it, you can't use it.