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Title: Preposition


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Preposition shows how a noun or pronoun (object
of the preposition) is related to some other word
in the sentence
  • Many prepositions indicate
  • direction, position, or relation in time
  • Compound Prepositions consist of more than one
    word
  • Prepositional Phrase consists of the
    preposition, its object, and any modifiers
  • Object of the preposition the noun or pronoun
    that the preposition refers to (to find ask who
    or what after the preposition)
  • Example
  • The elephants ran past us, moving toward the
    trees within sight of our camp.
  • prepositions past past whom? us
  • -toward toward what? trees
  • -within within what? sight
  • -of of what? camp

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Conjunctions -
  • Coordinating Conjunctions joins words or
    groups of words that are used in the same way
  • and, but, or, not, for, yet, nor, so
  • Correlative Conjunctions - pairs of conjunctions
    that join words or groups of words that are used
    in the same way
  • bothand - eitheror - neither...nor
  • whetheror - not only...but also

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Interjection
  • Interjection a word used to express emotion
  • Oh! You surprised me.
  • Wow! Am I tired!
  • Aha, youve discovered the secret.
  • Could you, well, be quiet, please?
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