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Prepositions


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Prepositions

• Prepositions are wordsthat show the relationship

(often place or time)between words in asentence.

• Prepositions are usuallysmall words, but they areimportant.


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Prepositions

• Common prepositions include at, by, from, in,

into, on, for, to, with,after, and without.

• A preposition and its noun

or pronoun object arereferred to asprepositional phrase.


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Prepositions

Example:

In May, my parents took a

trip with my aunt.

prepositional phrase


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Exercise

(Prepositions)


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Instruction

• nderline the prepositions ineach sentence and encircle thewhole prepositional phrase.

• !int: "he number in theparentheses is the number ofprepositional phrases in the

sentence. "he #rst one has beendone for you.


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$. Computers are bene#cial, but

they are tools and we shouldnot turn o%er all aspects of ourli%es to computers. (&')

&. n this particular instance, belie%e that we should not %otewith computers or otherelectronic media because

democracy is too important tocede to cyberspace. (')


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. *ithout this traditional system

of %otin+, howe%er, %oters do notreally know whether their %otesare tallied accurately on e%otin+systems. (')

-. "he simple fact is that hackerscan +ain access to manycomputer systems for ille+al

purposes. (&')


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. /y ille+ally enterin+ into cyber

pollin+ station, they could easilychan+e the outcome of anelection. (')


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