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Conjunction

By |October 19, 2022|Categories: Grammar|Tags: , , |

The conjunction is a part of speech that denotes connections between objects and phenomena. It connects parts of the sentence, clauses, and sentences. Sadie brought them in and went back to the door. (Mansfield) ...the blinds were down in the dining-room and the lights turned on — and all the lights were red-roses. (Mansfield) The other day I was saying to Fabermacher that Haviland isn’t really cruel, he’s just thoughtless. And Fabermacher said that was the cruellest thing about the human race. And he’s right. (Wilson) Structure According to their morphological structure conjunctions are divided into the [...]

Preposition

By |October 19, 2022|Categories: Grammar|Tags: , , |

The preposition is a part of speech that denotes the relations between objects and phenomena. It shows the relations between a noun or a pronoun and other words. Usually, the preposition is not stressed and stands before the word it refers to. Desert moved quickly to the windows. (Galsworthy) Sometimes, however, a preposition may be separated from the word it refers to and placed at the end of the sentence or clause. In that case, it is stressed. But he sounds as though he knows what he’s talking about. (Wilson) The proposition may be weakly stressed before a pronoun. She [...]