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 #2 (permalink) Sun Sep 30, 2007 15:42 pm about the prepositions |
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| d, c, c |
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Lost_Soul
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| #3 (permalink) Sun Sep 30, 2007 19:06 pm about the prepositions |
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| The usual expression is 'wear a smile on your face' rather than 'on yourself', though. |
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| #4 (permalink) Mon Oct 01, 2007 14:20 pm about the prepositions (of, from, in, on, with) |
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| how about the second and the third one? |
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| #5 (permalink) Mon Oct 01, 2007 16:05 pm about the prepositions (of, from, in, on, with) |
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2. (c) in
3. (c) in
Personally, I wouldn't use any preposition at all in sentence (1), and the word 'themselves' would only be used for emphasis in the first sentence (otherwise, it's unnecessary).
As Conchita mentioned, the preposition 'on' could be used with 'your face', for example.
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| #6 (permalink) Wed Feb 11, 2009 7:54 am would you explain about preposition? |
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| Would you give me some notes about some prepositions? please |
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| #7 (permalink) Wed Feb 11, 2009 22:36 pm would you explain about preposition? |
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| Kiki wrote: |
| Would you give me some notes about some prepositions? please |
Prepositions: Locators in Time and Place
A preposition describes a relationship between other words in a sentence. In itself, a word like "in" or "after" is rather meaningless and hard to define in mere words. For instance, when you do try to define a preposition like "in" or "between" or "on," you invariably use your hands to show how something is situated in relationship to something else. Prepositions are nearly always combined with other words in structures called prepositional phrases. Prepositional phrases can be made up of a million different words, but they tend to be built the same: a preposition followed by a determiner and an adjective or two, followed by a pronoun or noun (called the object of the preposition). This whole phrase, in turn, takes on a modifying role, acting as an adjective or an adverb, locating something in time and space, modifying a noun, or telling when or where or under what conditions something happened.
Consider the professor's desk and all the prepositional phrases we can use while talking about it.
You can sit before the desk (or in front of the desk). The professor can sit on the desk (when he's being informal) or behind the desk, and then his feet are under the desk or beneath the desk. He can stand beside the desk (meaning next to the desk), before the desk, between the desk and you, or even on the desk (if he's really strange). If he's clumsy, he can bump into the desk or try to walk through the desk (and stuff would fall off the desk). Passing his hands over the desk or resting his elbows upon the desk, he often looks across the desk and speaks of the desk or concerning the desk as if there were nothing else like the desk. Because he thinks of nothing except the desk, sometimes you wonder about the desk, what's in the desk, what he paid for the desk, and if he could live without the desk. You can walk toward the desk, to the desk, around the desk, by the desk, and even past the desk while he sits at the desk or leans against the desk.
All of this happens, of course, in time: during the class, before the class, until the class, throughout the class, after the class, etc.
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| #8 (permalink) Thu Feb 12, 2009 3:15 am thank you |
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Thank you for your help
But would you give me detail |
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| #9 (permalink) Fri Sep 11, 2009 22:45 pm Hi! |
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| I would like to know when to use the preposition at, in, on. I get confuse when I write something. thanks! |
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