A prepositional phrase starts with a preposition and adds information to the sentence and the nouns or verbs they are describing. There are MANY prepositions, but some of the most common are: to, of, on, in, over, above, upon, across, for, by, inside, from, with, at. Examples of prepositional phrases (which are underlined): <u>In the morning</u>, I will go see my aunt <u>at my mom's house</u> <u>with the green shutters</u>.
When Kafka was ill, he wrote a letter to Max Brod telling him to burn his unpublished manuscripts. However, Max ignored the letter and published Kafka's manuscripts.
Iceberg is the writing style of Hemingwat. Influenced by his journalistic career, Hemingway contended that by omitting superfluous and extraneous matter, writing becomes more interesting. He summarized his theory:
If a writer of prose knows enough of what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an ice-berg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. A writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow places in his writing.
