14 UNIT Prepositions, Conjunctions, and Interjections

1 UNITUNIT14 Prepositions, Conjunctions, and Interjections414 Lesson Prepositions 415 Lesson Prepositional Phrases 417 Lesson Pronouns After Prepositions 419 Lesson Prepositional Phrases as Adjectives and Adverbs 421 Lesson Telling Prepositions and Adverbs Apart 423 Lesson Conjunctions 425 Lesson Interjections 427 Grammar Review 429 Writing Application 4143/18/08 12:21:23 PM3/18/08 12:21:23 PMPrepositions A prepositionis a word that relates a noun or a pronoun to someother word in a dictionary onthe desk was almanac was underthe me atthree o clock preposition can consist of more than one borrowed the almanac along withsome other reference each sentence below.

2 Any word that fits in the blank is the almanac that is the took the atlas your USED , Conjunctions, and InterjectionsPREPOSITIONS OF MORE THAN ONE WORD according toalong withbecause ofin spite ofon top ofacross fromaside fromin front ofinstead ofout of414-437 wc6 U14 829814 1/15/04 8:14 PM Page 415416 Unit 14 Prepositions, Conjunctions, and InterjectionsPrepositions, Conjunctions, and InterjectionsExercise 1 Identifying PrepositionsWrite each preposition from the following famous libraries around the world are tourist New York Public library on Fifth Avenue serves the New Yorkmetropolitan marble lions in front of the library greet library houses a large number of books on a vast range of library also holds several exhibitions during the branches hold millions of New York Public library is one of the largest library systems in first public library in America was built in the year important library

3 Developments occurred during the Dewey established a system for the classification of 2 Identifying Prepositions of More Than One WordWrite the preposition or prepositions from each sentence. Circle eachpreposition of more than one classification number of a library book is found upon the spine of thebook, usually below the with the Dewey Decimal classification system, Melvil Dewey alsoestablished the American library Association and the library Dewey system organizes books into ten main research library in front of the administration building uses a differentsystem of classifying library of congress classification system categorizes books into twenty-one major areas of system was developed in the early twentieth century because of thelarge number of books in this from being one of the largest research libraries in the world.

4 TheLibrary of congress has the largest collection of books printed before the books in its collection is a perfect copy of the Gutenberg to the guide , the library provides reference assistance along withresearch for the United States the back of a book s title page, you will find cataloging wc6 U14 829814 1/15/04 8:15 PM Page 416 Prepositional Phrases A prepositional phrase is a group of words that begins with apreposition and ends with a noun or pronoun, which is called theobject of the Chin has an almanac from the nineteenth almanac has a special meaning for preposition can have a compound contain lists of facts and showed one to her sisters and her sentence can have more than one prepositional left our notes under the almanac on the prepositional phrase can appear anywhere in a sentence at thebeginning, in the middle.

5 Or at the the librarystudents examined the at the libraryexamined the examined the almanac at the you can use a prepositional phrase to wrote a newspaper wrote about old wrote a newspaper article about old the second sentence above, the prepositional phrase about oldalmanacstells more about the newspaper article. You can combine thesentences by adding the phrase to the first Prepositional , Conjunctions, and Interjections414-437 wc6 U14 829814 1/15/04 8:15 PM Page 417418 Unit 14 Prepositions, Conjunctions, and InterjectionsPrepositions, Conjunctions, and InterjectionsExercise 3 Identifying Prepositions and Their ObjectsWrite each prepositional phrase.

6 Underline each object of the sentences have more than one prepositional are often included in almanacs predict the weather through a certain year and give information on newspapers and organizations publish almanacs with special Richard s Almanacis a well-known almanac from the American Franklin published the book in is filled with facts and lists of various other kinds of reference books are found in the library is open from nine o clock in the morning to nine o clock at are located in the reference section of most school and cookbooks contain information about foods from pages of a dictionary list many different kinds of are useful for the study of many kinds of atlas can help you learn about the location of all the countries in most libraries the reference material cannot be taken out of the libraries today have collections of phonograph records, CDs, large cities have branch libraries in various libraries and public libraries are funded by taxes and of the rising cost of material and equipment.

7 library budgets havebeen under of the public libraries in the United States are branch library should have a good collection of reference materials, currentmagazines, and technical wc6 U14 829814 1/15/04 8:15 PM Page 418 Pronouns After PrepositionsWhen a pronoun is the object of a preposition, remember to use anobject pronoun and not a subject handed the dictionary to handed the dictionary to the example above, the object pronoun herreplaces Akilahas theobject of the preposition a preposition will have a compound object consistingof a noun and pronoun.

8 Remember to use an object pronoun in acompound borrowed the almanac from Jorge and Lisa. I borrowed the almanac from Jorge and object pronoun is used in the sentence and heristhe compound object of the preposition you are unsure about whether to use a subject pronoun or anobject pronoun, try saying the sentence aloud with only the pronounfollowing the pronouns whoand whomare often a subjectpronoun, and whomis an object pronoun. Note how the pronouns areused in the following you about it?To whomdid you lend the almanac? borrowed the almanac from Jorge Pronouns After , Conjunctions, and Interjections414-437 wc6 U14 829814 1/15/04 8:15 PM Page 419420 Unit 14 Prepositions, Conjunctions, and InterjectionsPrepositions, Conjunctions, and InterjectionsExercise 4 Choosing Pronouns After PrepositionsFor each sentence, write the correct and Lisa told you about (who, whom)?

9 Spoke to Lisa and (he, him) at the did Vanessa show to (them, they)? Valdes bumped into Vanessa and (she, her) in the had still not given her homework assignment to (him, he). walked with Lisa and (her, she) to the knows what he said to (they, them)? class they had lunch with Jorge and (he, him). is going to the library with (he, him). picked a topic that would interest both of (they, them).Exercise 5 Using Pronouns After PrepositionsIn each item, a proper noun is underlined. Replace the proper noun with thecorrect object Valdes handed an almanac to learned about Ukraine from had been one of the Soviet wanted information for Uncle Oscar often speaks of Greta, his lives with Victor, her mailed a package to places are exciting to wants to learn much more about plans a visit to Gretaand Victornext 6 Writing Sentences with Prepositions and Object PronounsWrite a sentence for each item.

10 Use the pronouns listed as objects of a prepo-sition. Underline the preposition and its object ANSWERWe wrote a letter to and him414-437 wc6 U14 829814 1/15/04 8:15 PM Page 420 Prepositional Phrases as Adjectives and AdverbsPrepositional phrases function as adjectives and adverbs insentences. A prepositional phrase functioning as an adjectivedescribes anoun or a phrases can describe subjects, direct and indirect objects,predicate nouns, or objects in other prepositional phrases. An adjec-tive phrase usually comes directly after the noun or pronoun is a continent with many natural of the articlesdescribes Africa wildlife of Africais varied and abundant.