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Lesson 5: Prepositions
Inspector: Where were you on Saturday?
Boy: I was visiting my girlfriend.
Inspector: That was in the afternoon. Where were you at
Boy: morning?
Well, I left home at 5am in the morning. I came
Inspector: back home only at night.
Your friend says you reached his place at 1pm.
Where were you in the meantime?
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 get engaged on Friday.
They are singing a song in my room despite warning.
A mongoose jumped onto my table and fell asleep.
In the first sentence, the word ‘on’ shows the relationship between the
verb ‘engaged’ and ‘Friday’ and suggests time.
In the second sentence, the word ‘in’ shows relationship between ‘song’
and ‘my room’ and suggests a place or position.
In the last sentence, the word ‘onto’ shows relationship between ‘jumped’
and ‘my table’ and suggests direction or motion.
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