♥ Saturday, November 29, 2008
Holidays!
Hihi everyone!
It's been a while since I wrote the last posting. How have you spent your holidays so far? I hope you are fine and happy. If you read or watch the news recently, you will learn that there are so many happenings in the world. Some are quite sad that we question ourselves, "What's wrong with the world?". We must therefore be equiped with knowledge and skills so that we can tell rights and wrongs, and contribute to the well-being of the society, the world.
Well, I hope you can remember the basic structure of a sentence - Subject, Verb and Object. In this posting, I would like you to identify another common item in a sentence. That is Prepositions.
What are Prepositions?
They are words that tell us
(1) Place - where one thing is relation to another/ the position of something
(2) Movement - where a person/an object is moving to (direction)
(3) Time - the time and duration of an event
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Place - Examples: in, on, at, beside, on top of, in front, behind, opposite, against, near, between, under, near, among, above, by, ...
I sit at the table. ['at' is the preposition because it tells us where the Subject 'I' is sitting]
He puts the cap on his head. ['on' tells us where the cap is to the head]
Sulaiman sat beside Zi Hui.
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Movement - Examples: to, from...to..., across, along, up, down, into, off, towards, over, under, through, out, ...
Let's go to the library this Saturday.
We travelled from the MRT Station to the Marina Stadium for the NE Show.
The boys ran round the field yesterday.
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Time - Examples: at, on, in, until, till, during, for, between... and..., and, ...
Jessie and Meena waited for three hours to get the movie tickets.
You must return the report book by Wednesday.
The show will start in ten minutes.
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You may realise that some prepositions are repeated under Place, Movement or Time. This means that the words can be used for different reasons. I want you to learn to identify prepositions in sentences. Begin with newspapers or storybooks and list down the prepositions that you can find. Of course, prepositions may not appear in some sentences. So do not be surprised if you cannot find any preposition in a sentence.
That's all for this posting. Rest well, learn well AND play well!
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