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What is a Preposition?
Comprehension Questions

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Based on the lesson about prepositions, click the correct answers below.

1. What do you call words in a language that do not have much meaning by themselves but are used to show grammatical relationships with other words?

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Sorry! I’m not even sure what an “alternative word” is...

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Oops! Not really. A phrase is any set of words that work together, but that’s not really what function words are.

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Function words show relationships between ideas, but they often do not mean much by themselves (for example, the word “the”).

2. Prepositions are function words used to connect words and parts of sentences to other words and parts of sentences.

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This is one was of defining what a preposition is.

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This statement is actually true. It is difficult to define exactly what a preposition is, but this statement is a fairly good definition.

3 . Prepositions can show only three relationships between ideas: time, space, and duration.

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Actually, prepositions express many types of relationships depending on the ideas they connect.

For example, in the sentence “We disagree on this issue,” the preposition on connects the verb to the object. The relationship is neither time, nor space, nor duration.

You’re right! This statement is false.

Prepositions express many different relationships. It depends on the ideas they connect.

For example, in the sentence “We disagree on this issue,” the preposition on connects the verb to the object to create a grammatical structure.

4. There are approximately 50 prepositions in English.

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There are approximately 150 prepositions in English.

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There are approximately 150 prepositions in English.

5. In English, prepositions are easy to learn because prepositions are always logical.

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Many prepositions make perfect sense; however, there are many prepositions you use because “that’s just the way it is.”

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Many times, the only explanation for which preposition you must use is that it is part of a construction or expression that you must memorize with the preposition.

6. What kind of preposition is in in this sentence? “

John is in the office today.”

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Read the sentence carefully and try again.

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Good job! In this sentence, “in” tells you where John is.

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Look at the sentence carefully and try again.

7. What kind of preposition is in this sentence?

There is a park in front of my house.

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A one-word preposition is only 1 word such as in, with, or from.

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Look at the sentence carefully and try again.

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Good job! In front of uses two prepositions and a noun, so it is called a “complex preposition.”

8. Which of the following is a double preposition?

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That’s right! You have two prepositions here: out and of.

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“Double” means 2. Look again.

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Try again.

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