Week 1 vocab

de-

• across; change; through

• reduce down; away from

• opposite; against

• not

anti-

• before; earlier

• small; miniature

• against; opposite

• self

ante-

• opposite; against

• together; with

• behind; after

• in front of; before

co- ; com- ; con-

• through; across

• away from

• made of; to make

• together; with

AGAINST, COUNTER

• NEO-
• ANTE-
• ANTI-
• PERI-

BEFORE, TOWARD

• INTER-
• ANTI-
• ANTE-
• PRE-

two, twice, biannual

• bi-

• ambi-

• abs-

Identify the prepositional phrase in the sentence:

Look down the mountain, and tell me what you see.

• Look down

• what you see

• tell me

• down the mountain

Identify the prepositional phrase in the following sentence: 

The pencil fell under the desk. 

• the pencil
• fell under the desk
• under the desk
• the desk

His fiancee, a civil engineer, was transferred.

The underlined section is an example of what type of phrase?

• Absolute

• Participial

• Prepositional

• Appositive