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Adjective

Adjectives describe or give information about nouns and do not change form based on the noun. Some adjectives provide factual information while others show opinion. Prepositions link nouns, pronouns, and phrases to other words and usually indicate a temporal, spatial, or logical relationship.

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Adjective

Adjectives describe or give information about nouns and do not change form based on the noun. Some adjectives provide factual information while others show opinion. Prepositions link nouns, pronouns, and phrases to other words and usually indicate a temporal, spatial, or logical relationship.

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Adjectives

Adjectives describe or give information about nouns.

The good news is that the form of adjectives does not change; it does not matter if the noun being
modified is male or female, singular or plural, subject or object.

Some adjectives give us factual information about the noun - age, size colour etc (fact adjectives - can't
be argued with). Some adjectives show what somebody thinks about something or somebody - nice,
horrid, beautiful etc (opinion adjectives - not everyone may agree).

EXERCISE:

1. Yesterday she heard ________________ news. (to surprise)

2. The ______________ tools must be returned by five o'clock. (to rent)

3. The ______________ rabbit stayed perfectly still. (to frighten)

4. We had a ________________ experience. (to frighten)

5. The play is ________________. (to entertain)

ANSWERS:

1. surprising 2. rented 3. frightened 4. frightening 5. entertaining

Preposition

A preposition links nouns, pronouns and phrases to other words in a sentence. The word or phrase that
the preposition introduces is called the object of the preposition.

A preposition usually indicates the temporal, spatial or logical relationship of its object to the rest of the
sentence as in the following examples:

The book is on the table.

The book is beneath the table.

The book is leaning against the table.

The book is beside the table.

She held the book over the table.

She read the book during class.


In each of the preceding sentences, a preposition locates the noun "book" in space or in time. A
prepositional phrase is made up of the preposition, its object and any associated adjectives or adverbs.
A prepositional phrase can function as a noun, an adjective, or an adverb. The most common
prepositions are "about," "above," "across," "after," "against," "along," "among," "around," "at,"
"before," "behind," "below," "beneath," "beside," "between," "beyond," "but," "by," "despite," "down,"
"during," "except," "for," "from," "in," "inside," "into," "like," "near," "of," "off," "on," "onto," "out,"
"outside," "over," "past," "since," "through," "throughout," "till," "to," "toward," "under," "underneath,"
"until," "up," "upon," "with," "within," and "without."

Each of the highlighted words in the following sentences is a preposition:

The children climbed the mountain without fear.

In this sentence, the preposition "without" introduces the noun "fear." The prepositional phrase
"without fear" functions as an adverb describing how the children climbed.

There was rejoicing throughout the land when the government was defeated.

Here, the preposition "throughout" introduces the noun phrase "the land." The prepositional phrase
acts as an adverb describing the location of the rejoicing.

The spider crawled slowly along the banister.

The preposition "along" introduces the noun phrase "the banister" and the prepositional phrase "along
the banister" acts as an adverb, describing where the spider crawled.

The dog is hiding under the porch because it knows it will be punished for chewing up a new pair of
shoes.

Here the preposition "under" introduces the prepositional phrase "under the porch," which acts as an
adverb modifying the compound verb "is hiding."

The screenwriter searched for the manuscript he was certain was somewhere in his office.

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