Wooden, penniless, eastward, somewhere, here, evening, everywhere, yonder, joyfully, wintry.
Make a sentence out of the words in each line below.
Boat, waves, glides, the, the, over.
He, Sunday, church, goes, the, on, to.
Year, night, is dying, the, the, in.
Qualities, Charlemagne, vices, were alloyed, the, great, of, with.
Indians, America, intemperance, are thinned, the, out, of, by.
LESSON 34.
PREPOSITIONS.
+Hints for Oral Instruction+.—In the preceding Lessons, the little words that were placed before nouns, thus forming phrases, belong to a, class of words called +Prepositions+. You noticed that these words, which you have now learned to call prepositions, served to introduce phrases. The preposition shows the relation of the idea expressed by the principal word of the phrase to that of the word which the phrase modifies. It serves also to connect these words.
In the sentence, The squirrel ran up a tree, what word shows the relation of the act of running, to the tree? Ans. Up.
Other words may be used to express different relations. Repeat, nine times, the sentence above given, supplying, in the place of up, each of the following prepositions: Around, behind, down, into, over, through, to, under, from.
Let this exercise be continued, using such sentences as, The man went into the house; The ship sailed toward the bay.
+DEFINITION.—A Preposition is a word that introduces a phrase modifier, and shows the relation, in sense, of its principal word to the word modified+.