edit drafts using standard English conventions, including:
(i) complete simple and compound sentences with subject-verb agreement and avoidance of splices, run-ons, and fragments;
(ii) past tense of irregular verbs;
(iii) collective nouns;
(iv) adjectives, including their comparative and superlative forms;
(v) conjunctive adverbs;
(vi) prepositions and prepositional phrases and their influence on subject-verb agreement;
(vii) pronouns, including indefinite;
(viii) subordinating conjunctions to form complex sentences;
(ix) capitalization of abbreviations, initials, acronyms, and organizations;
(x) italics and underlining for titles and emphasis and punctuation marks, including quotation marks in dialogue and commas in compound and complex sentences; and
(xi) correct spelling of words with grade-appropriate orthographic patterns and rules and high-frequency words; and
A preposition is a word used to connect a nouns, pronouns, and ideas in a sentence. Along with other words in prepositionalphrases, prepositions can be used to explain relationships between words in a sentence.
CommonPrepositions
until
before
between
during
against
without
with
through
throughout
beside
despite
aboard
except
toward
above
beneath
underneath
near
among
under
after
since
from
on
up
along
beyond
in
off
amid
at
by
inside
outside
opposite
A prepositionalphrase is a group of words that begins with a preposition and ends with a noun or pronoun. The noun or pronoun at the end is called the objectofthepreposition.