ENGL 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Preposition And Postposition, Count Basie

• School: University of Victoria
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL 101
• Professor: Mac Leod Brock

Document Summary

Prepositions are words that connect a noun or pronoun with another part of a sentence. Prepositions include words such as about, by, in, of, and with. They almost always introduce a noun or a pronoun, which is called the object of the preposition. The old tree fell onto the parked car. Onto is a preposition that relates its object-- the parked car-- to the rest of the sentence, helping to explain where the tree fell. The entire word group, onto the parked car, is called a prepositional phrase. Prepositional phrases are used to modify nouns and verbs, explaining where things are or how things happened. The prepositional phrase, through the hoop, includes the preposition through and the noun hoop. The entire prepositional phrase, through the hoop, explains where the tiger jumped. The object of prepositional phrases can be confused with the subject of the sentence. This confusion leads to errors in subject-verb agreement or pronoun case.