1.11 - Windows - Help with Prep Phrase Types Window
What is a prep phrase type?
Information in MindModel is stored as nouns and statements.
Nouns are the people, places, things, ideas, etc. that are recorded in a model.
Statements are facts about those nouns.
Statements are composed of subject nouns, verbs, and object nouns and (sometimes) prepositional phrases.
A simple MindModel statement would be:
person: John Doe <works for> organization: MindModel Corporation
If you wanted to add a prepositional phrase to this statement, you might say:
person: John Doe <worked for> organization: MindModel Corporation [starting] date: 1/1/2004
NOTE: The extra punctuation ("<>:[]") does not appear in MindModel. We use it here to make the statement easier to read.
The prepositional phrase "[starting] date: 1/1/2003" adds information to the statement, to make it more specific. You can add one or more prepositional phrases to any MindModel statement.
What are the parts of a prep phrase?
Prepositional phrase (or "prep phrases") have three parts:
1) the preposition type (in this case: "starting")
2) the object of preposition noun type (in this case: "date")
3) the object of preposition noun (in this case: "1/1/2003")
In this case, the object of preposition noun specifies the exact date when the person started working for the organization.
The first two parts (preposition type and object of preposition noun type) could apply to many different statements. Each might have its own object of preposition noun. All prep phrases that share the same first two parts would be said to have the same prep phrase type.
For example, the following three prepositional phrases all have the save prep phrase type:
[starting] date: 1/1/2003
[starting] date: 4/10/2003
[starting] date: 2/4/2004
How do I use the Help with Prep Phrase Types Window?
The Help with Prep Phrase Types Window provides you with a complete list of all the prep phrases types available in MindModel.
You'll use this window when you want to know what types of prep phrase you can add to the end of a statement.
Some examples of prep phrase types are:
[about] book:
[because of] person:
[before] date:
The Help with Prep Phrase Types Window