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_.
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