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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
Grammar
The preposition "of".
Hi, My name is Schuyler.
My understanding of prepositions, is that they express "a relation to another word or element in the clause."
Can someone explain to me why "for", in the following sentence, is not a preposition.
There will be a village person waiting for you.
It expresses the relationship between "you" and "waiting".
"There will be a village person waiting "in town".
"There will be a village person waiting "at the dock"
"At" and "in" are prepositions in the final two sentences, but apparently "for" is not a preposition in the first sentence. That makes no sense to me.
I am about to loose my mind with preposition identification. My mind prefers absolutes, and I just cannot seem to wrap my head around, or develop a sure fire way to identify preposition in use.
The basic ones that identify an obvious pace in time, location, etc... I have no problems, but the trickier ones are making me feel like a complete moron at this point.
Any help is going to be greatly appreciated
My understanding of prepositions, is that they express "a relation to another word or element in the clause."
Can someone explain to me why "for", in the following sentence, is not a preposition.
There will be a village person waiting for you.
It expresses the relationship between "you" and "waiting".
"There will be a village person waiting "in town".
"There will be a village person waiting "at the dock"
"At" and "in" are prepositions in the final two sentences, but apparently "for" is not a preposition in the first sentence. That makes no sense to me.
I am about to loose my mind with preposition identification. My mind prefers absolutes, and I just cannot seem to wrap my head around, or develop a sure fire way to identify preposition in use.
The basic ones that identify an obvious pace in time, location, etc... I have no problems, but the trickier ones are making me feel like a complete moron at this point.
Any help is going to be greatly appreciated
Top answer
'For' is a preposition in the first sentence. Who told you it wasn't?
- 'For' is a preposition in the first sentence.
- Who told you it wasn't?
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'For' is a preposition in the first sentence. Who told you it wasn't?
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http://www.kyrene.org/schools/brisas/sunda/grammar/prepositions/PrepositionQ.htm
Question number 5. Just click the arrow looking button at the top to scroll questions. Thanks for the help.
Question number 5. Just click the arrow looking button at the top to scroll questions. Thanks for the help.
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The answer key is wrong. Two sentences in #5 have prepositions. The answers to #17 and #18 are wrong, also—there are no right answers, really. I scored 20/20 anyway.
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Well that's not very confidence inspiring. That wrong answer has stymied my entire session for the night and further warped an already terrible understanding of prepositions. Thanks for the help. I guess I'll try and find another quiz and just hope that it's not filled with inaccuracies.
Any advice?
Any advice?
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There are plenty of preposition and other grammar quizzes on the internet, and many of them contain inaccuracies. So do many brick-and-mortar tests. It is very hard to write an error-free examination without lots of proofreading. But if you take enough of those quizzes you'll be able to spot the errors yourself.
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One more if you don't mind. Another quiz is identifying "wile" as a subordinating conjunction and it seems to me that it is being used as a preposition.
The young man stumbled while crossing the street.
If it is in fact a subordinating conjunction, would you mind briefly explaining why to me?
The young man stumbled while crossing the street.
If it is in fact a subordinating conjunction, would you mind briefly explaining why to me?
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'Whlle is followed by a non-finite participial clause.
'While' as a preposition is defunct. If you continue taking quizzes, you will soon meet with one of the traditional EFL test challenges: properly using the preposition 'during' vs the conjunction 'while'.
'While' as a preposition is defunct. If you continue taking quizzes, you will soon meet with one of the traditional EFL test challenges: properly using the preposition 'during' vs the conjunction 'while'.
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