Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Purpose of a Preposition

A preposition is designed to give more detail and information to a sentance.
A preposition gives information of time, location, and action and movement.
Many people say that it is improper to end a sentance with a preposition, however this is a highly controversial subject and not everyone may agree.

Some examples of senteces with and without prepositions are:

Without: Lets go there then.
With: Lets go BEHIND the building AT noon TO dumb the trash.

Without: Meet me there.
With: Meet me IN FRONT OF target BY five o'clock so we can go INTO the store together.

This website has a list on all of the prepositions of it incase any of you were wondering about more:
http://www2.actden.com/Writ_Den/tips/sentence/preposit.htm

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