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The Parts of Speech

The Parts of Speech. Warriner , John E., Mary E. Whitten and Francis Griffith. Warriner’s English Grammar and Composition Third Course . New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977. Print. The Preposition. Certain words function in a sentence as relaters.

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The Parts of Speech

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  1. The Parts of Speech Warriner, John E., Mary E. Whitten and Francis Griffith. Warriner’s English Grammar and Composition Third Course. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977. Print.

  2. The Preposition

  3. Certain words function in a sentence as relaters. • That is, they relate nouns and pronouns to other nouns and pronouns, to verbs, or to modifiers. • These words are called prepositions.

  4. Definition A preposition is a word that shows the relationship of a noun or pronoun to some other word in a sentence.

  5. Notice how the relationships change when the preposition changes. • I walked to the house. • I walked around the house. • I walked through the house.

  6. The book by Douglass is new. • The book about Douglass is new. • The book for Douglass is new.

  7. The following words are commonly used as prepositions: • Aboard • About • Above • Across • After • Against • Along • Among • Around • At

  8. Before • Behind • Below • Beneath • Beside • Besides • Between • Beyond • But (except) • By • Concerning • Down • During • Except

  9. For • From • In • Inside • Into • Like • Near • Of • Off • On • Out • Over • Past • Since

  10. Through • Throughout • Till • To • Toward • Under • Underneath • Until • Up • Upon • With • Within • Without

  11. Many words in this long list can also be adverbs. • To distinguish between adverbs and prepositions, ask yourself whether the word relates a following noun or pronoun to a word that precedes.

  12. Compare the following: • Look around. [adverb] • Look around the corner. [preposition]

  13. There are also compound prepositions, having more than one word. • Here are some that are frequently used:

  14. According to • As of • Aside from • Because of • By means of • In addition to • In front of • In place of • In spite of • Instead of • On account of • Out of • Owing to • Prior to

  15. The preposition and the noun or pronoun that follows combine to form a prepositional phrase. • Add prepositions to the following sentences to form prepositional phrases:

  16. Recently I have learned a great many facts ____ animals. • A whale cannot stay ____ the water long because it must breathe air. • Though a whale may live a hundred years, a horse is old ____ the age ____ thirty, and a dog usually dies before it reaches twenty.

  17. The deafness ____ insects may surprise you. • ____ their blindness, bats depend greatly ____ their voices and ears. • Equipped ____ a type ____ radar, a blind bat squeaks ____ a high pitch, listens ____ the echo, and detects and dodges obstacles.

  18. The ears ____ both bats and dogs can detect sounds that cannot be heard ____ human ears. • Owls may see rays ____ light which are invisible ____ human eyes.

  19. It is, ____ course, a tragedy when a person loses an arm or a leg ____ an automobile accident. • Yet, if ____ chance a starfish should lose arms, new arms would grow; if one type ____ flatworm should get its head chopped off, it would ____ time grow a new head.

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