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Prepositions

Prepositions. How many prepositions?.

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Prepositions

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  1. Prepositions

  2. How many prepositions? • You can sit before the desk (or in front of the desk). The professor can sit on the desk (when he's being informal) or behind the desk, and then his feet are under the desk or beneath the desk. He can stand beside the desk (meaning next to the desk), before the desk, between the desk and you, or even on the desk (if he's really strange). If he's clumsy, he can bump into the desk or try to walk through the desk (and stuff would fall off the desk). Passing his hands over the desk or resting his elbows upon the desk, he often looks across the desk and speaks of the desk or concerning the desk as if there were nothing else like the desk. Because he thinks of nothing except the desk, sometimes you wonder about the desk, what's in the desk, what he paid for the desk, and if he could live without the desk. You can walk toward the desk, to the desk, around the desk, by the desk, and even past the desk while he sits at the desk or leans against the desk.

  3. Did you find all 32? • You can sit before the desk (or in front of the desk). The professor can sit on the desk (when he's being informal) or behind the desk, and then his feet are under the desk or beneath the desk. He can stand beside the desk (meaning next to the desk), before the desk, between the desk and you, or even on the desk (if he's really strange). If he's clumsy, he can bump into the desk or try to walk through the desk (and stuff would fall off the desk). Passing his hands over the desk or resting his elbows upon the desk, he often looks across the desk and speaks of the desk or concerning the desk as if there were nothing else like the desk. Because he thinks of nothing except the desk, sometimes you wonder about the desk, what's in the desk, what he paid for the desk, and if he could live without the desk. You can walk toward the desk, to the desk, around the desk, by the desk, and even past the desk while he sits at the desk or leans against the desk.

  4. We use prepositions to… • locate something in time and space • The book is on the desk. • We will meet at 10 o’ clock. • Indicate direction • He is moving away from Connecticut. • She is coming from the office.

  5. Other Prepositions—hardest to find • These kind are the hardest to find, but the most useful for finding the subject and verb of a sentence. • One of the boys wants to be an engineer. • The horse with the spotted legs won the race. • The man from the suburbs was lost. The simple subjects from the above examples are “One” “horse” and “man.” The answer questions such as “which one?”

  6. Other Prepositions cont… • I recommend memorizing the most common of these tricky prepositions:  of, for, from, with, without, about. • You can repeat them out loud in 2 sets of 3 words until they stick

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