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Lesson 5: Prepositions
Young education advocate Malala Yousafzail
who survived an attempt on her life in Swat,
Pakistan on 9 October 2012, has won the 2014
Liberty Medal from the National Constitution
Centre in Philadelphia, US. The prestigious medal
has been awarded annually since 1989, when
Polish Solidarity founder Lech Walesa received
it first. She also released her memoir in 2013, I am
Malala, which is now also out in a Young Readers
Edition: I am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for
Education and Changed the World.
Prepositions are the words that are usually placed before a noun or
pronoun in a sentence and show the relationship between a noun or
pronoun and other words in the sentence.
We shall call you on Monday.
They are singing a song in the auditorium tomorrow.
A mongoose jumped onto the wall and sat there.
In the first sentence, the word ‘on’ shows the relationship between the
pronoun ‘you’ and ‘Monday’ and suggests time.
In the second sentence, the word ‘in’ shows relationship between ‘song’
and ‘the auditorium tomorrow’ and suggests a place or position.
In the last sentence, the word ‘onto’ shows relationship between
‘jumped’ and ‘the wall’ and suggests direction or motion.
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