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Kirkham, Samuel

"English Grammar in Familiar Lectures"


FALSE SYNTAX.
The man was slowly wandering about, _solitarily_ and distressed.
He lived in a manner _agreeably_ to his condition.
The study of Syntax should be _previously_ to that of Punctuation.
He introduced himself in a manner very _abruptly_.
_Conformably_ to their vehemence of thought, was their vehemence of
gesture.
I saw him _previously_ to his arrival.

LECTURE VII

OF PREPOSITIONS.
A PREPOSITION is a word which serves to connect words, and show the
relation between them.
The term _preposition_ is derived from the two Latin words, _pre_, which
signifies _before_, and _pono, to place_. Prepositions are so called,
because they are mostly placed before the nouns and pronouns which they
govern in the objective case.
The principal prepositions are presented in the following list, which
you may now commit to memory, and thus you will be enabled to
distinguish them from other parts of speech whenever you see them in
composition.
A LIST OF THE PREPOSITIONS.
of, over, at, after, betwixt,
to, under, near, about, beside,
for, through, up, against, athwart,
by, above, down, unto, towards,
with, below, before, across, notwithstanding,
in, between, behind, around, out of,
into, beneath, off, amidst, instead of,
within, from, on upon, throughout, over against,
without, beyond, among, underneath, according to.


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