Chapter 25
1. What is the rule for prepositions? Prepositions show the relation between their objects and other words, as she went to town. 2. How many terms of the relation are there?
2. An antecedent and a subsequent. 3. Distinguish between them. The former is the word which the phrase modifies.
The latter is the object of the preposition. 4. Give an exception. For man to tell how human life began is hard. 4.
Introduces the subject and has no antecedent term. 5. Give a second exception. The preposition to before an infinitive is simply the sign of the infinitive, as she tries to learn.
Also prepositions and prepositional phrases do not show relations between words, as in vain did he attempt it. We shall see you by and by. 6. How are such prepositions disposed of?
The phrase including the preposition is parsed as an adverb. 7. When prepositions are used with participles, how are they disposed of? In such sentences as the following, the participle used as a noun is the object of the preposition. On opening the book I saw her name.
They accused him of telling a falsehood, etc. 8. What is the subsequent term of relation called? The object of the preposition. 9.
How can we tell what preposition should be used? By this sense, the relation of the antecedent and subsequent can be determined and this relation determines the preposition. 10. Where are prepositions generally placed in a sentence?
Before their objects. 11. Are prepositions ever omitted? Yes, they are frequently understood, as lend parentheses to me your knife. He lives opposite, parentheses to, the hotel.
12. Give illustration of the omission of the preposition. The tree has grown two feet. He was banished his native land. 13.
Give an illustration of two prepositions used together to express a compound relation. Iambic verse consists of from two to six feet. 14. What part of speech is the word worth? In the following and similar sentences, worth according to Brown is a preposition.
As to reign is worth ambition. The book is worth a dollar. 15. Should a sentence ever end in a preposition? The best usage does not allow it, though the following quotations show that authority sanctions
it. Science the ladies do not pretend to, Berg, until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of. Bible. He brought an axe to chop wood with.
Holbrook's Grammar. Whom did he sin for? Ibid. 16. How should the words between and among be used?
Between is used in reference to two objects only. Among in reference to a greater number. As I will divide my candy between Flora and Emma. My marbles among Lee, Wilford and Bud. 17.
How should the prepositions in and into be used? In is often improperly used for into, as he went in the house. For he went into the house. One cannot be in the house until he first goes into it. In denotes that there is no meaning of motion or change.
Two denotes the relation produced by motion or change. 18. Which is right to say? I differ with you or I differ from you. This depends entirely on the meaning you wish to convey.
If you mean in opinion, differ with. If in likeness, differ from is correct. As I differ with you on that subject. The little boy differs from his sister in his features or disposition. Men differ with one another in politics and they differ from one another in tempers.
19. Give a few words in common use with prepositions that should be used with them. Abound with in. Accompanied with an inanimate object by an animate object. Accused of.
Acquaint with. Adapted to. Agree with a person. To a proposition. Upon a thing.
Arrive at in. Attended with an inanimate object by an animate object. Capacity for. Compare with in quality. To in illustration.
Connect with. Conversant with people. Copy from things. After people. Correspond with a person.
To a thing. Die of a disease. By any violent cause. Depend on upon. Entrance into.
Expert at in. Familiar with a thing. To us. Followed by after. Participate with a person.
In a thing. Profit by. Reconcile with to be consistent. To one another. Rely on upon.
Unite to with. Suitable to for before a participle. 20. Give 10 sentences showing the wrong use of prepositions. 1.
He went to the city accompanied by with his sister. 2. He sent me an order accompanied by with the money. 3. We agree with to your proposition.
4. We agree on upon that point. 5. He died from of cholera. 6.
He died with of pneumonia. 7. He died of by strangulation. 8. He went to profit from by the errors of others.
9. There should be no quarreling between among us four. 10. Pass in into the room. 21.
A preposition without a subsequent term becomes what? It then becomes an adverb. As God dwells above, he looks around. 22. What is the program for parsing prepositions?
1. Name the part of speech. 2. Give its relation. 3.
Name or recite the rule. 23. Parse a simple preposition. He wrote a letter to me. 2 is a preposition and shows the relation between me and wrote.
Rule. 24. Parse another simple preposition. He is a friend with whom I am highly pleased. With is a preposition and shows the relation between whom and am pleased.
Rule. 25. Parse a compound preposition. He carefully blew the smoke from between his lips. From between is a preposition, compound shows the relation between blue and lips.
Rule. 20. Parse a complex preposition. The son took his own course in spite of his father's dictations. In spite of is a preposition complex and shows the relation between dictations and took.
Rule. End of section 25.
