Activity 2: Identifying Verbs, Subjects, and Prepositional Phrases This activity is based on Lawrence B. Schlack, “Not Going to College is a Viable Option.”

Review the list of common prepositions in the chart above. Then put parentheses (around any prepositional phrases) in the following sentences. Next, double-underline the verbs, and finally underline the subjects.

1. Many young people (in college) don’t know why they are there or where they are going.

2. The experience of going to college becomes a very expensive form of career exploration.

3. Status, economics and competition drive the pressure to go to college.

4. There is a widespread belief that more college degrees will make the United States competitive.

5. The next logical step for high school students is not always college.

6. In Europe graduates take time off for travel, work or public service.

7. Getting a job after high school offers experience.

8. Instead of paying tuition you earn money and learn business skills.

Which trait is common to the narrators in these excerpts? a the narrators were born in poverty the narrators were separated from their birth parents c. the narrators grew up to be criminals d the narrators worked hard in lide to improva their ocial status the narrators blamed themselves for their mistortunps

Which lines in this excerpt from act ii of william shakespeare’s romeo and juliet reveal that mercutio thinks romeo would be better off if he stopped thinking about love? mercutio: i will bite thee by the ear for that jest. romeo: nay, good goose, bite not. mercutio: thy wit is a very bitter sweeting it is a most sharp sauce. romeo: and is it not well served in to a sweet goose? mercutio: o here's a wit of cheveril, that stretches from an inch narrow to an ell broad! romeo: i stretch it out for that word 'broad; ' which added to the goose, proves thee far and wide a broad goose. mercutio: why, is not this better now than groaning for love? now art thou sociable, now art thou romeo; now art thou what thou art, by art as well as by nature: for this drivelling love is like a great natural, that runs lolling up and down to hide his bauble in a hole. benvolio: stop there, stop there. mercutio: thou desirest me to stop in my tale against the hair. benvolio: thou wouldst else have made thy tale large. mercutio: o, thou art deceived; i would have made it short: for i was come to the whole depth of my tale; and meant, indeed, to occupy the argument no longer.

How does pumblechook treat pip before his visit to satis house? why?