A. Prepositions
Prepositions have been
called the biggest little words in English. They are usually quite short and
signification looking, but they have very important functions.
Only the prepositions
change, but that is enough to change the meaning entirely. Prepositions are
always followed by nouns (or pronouns). They are connective words that show the
relationship between the nouns following them and one of the basic sentence
element: subject, verb, object, or complement. They usually indicate
relationship, such as position, place, direction, time, manner, agent,
possession, and condition, between their objects and other parts of the
sentence. Prepositional phrase usually provide information asked for by the
question words who, what, where, when, why, how, and how long.
