{"id":98,"date":"2017-09-04T06:24:24","date_gmt":"2017-09-04T06:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/americanboard.org\/Subjects\/english\/?page_id=98"},"modified":"2017-09-21T14:27:52","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T14:27:52","slug":"prepositions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/americanboard.org\/Subjects\/english\/prepositions\/","title":{"rendered":"Prepositions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"twelve columns\" style=\"margin-top: 10%;\">\n<div class=\"advance\"><a class=\"button button-primary\" href=\"http:\/\/americanboard.org\/Subjects\/english\/adjectives-adverbs\">\u2b05 Previous Lesson<\/a>\u00a0<a class=\"button\" href=\"http:\/\/americanboard.org\/Subjects\/english\/standard-english-language-conventions\">Workshop Index<\/a>\u00a0<a class=\"button button-primary\" href=\"http:\/\/americanboard.org\/Subjects\/english\/punctuation\">Next Lesson \u27a1<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- CONTENT BEGINS HERE --><\/p>\n<h1 id=\"title\">Prepositions<\/h1>\n<p><abbr title=\" Preposition \u2013 a word that the defines the relationship of a noun or pronoun to another word or element in the sentence; for example, in, over, because, after \"><strong>Prepositions<\/strong><\/abbr> include words such as above, around, between, for, into, on, toward, until, and without. Pronouns and nouns accompany prepositions to form <abbr title=\" Prepositional phrase \u2013 A phrase consisting of a preposition and its object that has adjective or adverbial value \"><strong>prepositional phrases.<\/strong><\/abbr><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong> into<\/strong> the woods<\/p>\n<p><strong> without<\/strong> a chance<\/p>\n<p><strong> between<\/strong> a rock and a hard place<\/p>\n<p><strong> toward<\/strong> him<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Remember to use the<abbr title=\"Objective case pronouns \u2013 Case used for direct and indirect objects and for the objects of prepositions; the objective case pronouns are me, us, you, him, her, it, them, whom \"><strong> objective case<\/strong><\/abbr> of pronouns in prepositional phrases.<\/p>\n<h4>Review of Parts of Speech and Grammar<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Use the dictionary if you have questions about conjugating irregular verbs and pluralizing irregular nouns.<\/li>\n<li>Choose a pronoun based on the antecedent\u2019s number and gender, and the pronoun\u2019s function in the sentence. Make sure the pronoun clearly refers to an antecedent.<\/li>\n<li>Verb tense depends on verb voice, time, continuation, and when the action happened in relation to other events.<\/li>\n<li>Adjectives modify nouns and pronouns. Adverbs modify verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!-- CONTENT ENDS HERE --><\/p>\n<div class=\"advance\"><a class=\"button button-primary\" href=\"http:\/\/americanboard.org\/Subjects\/english\/adjectives-adverbs\">\u2b05 Previous Lesson<\/a>\u00a0<a class=\"button\" href=\"http:\/\/americanboard.org\/Subjects\/english\/standard-english-language-conventions\">Workshop Index<\/a>\u00a0<a class=\"button button-primary\" href=\"http:\/\/americanboard.org\/Subjects\/english\/punctuation\">Next Lesson \u27a1<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a class=\"backtotop\" href=\"#title\">Back to Top<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2b05 Previous Lesson\u00a0Workshop Index\u00a0Next Lesson \u27a1 Prepositions Prepositions include words such as above, around, between, for, into, on, toward, until, and without. Pronouns and nouns accompany prepositions to form prepositional phrases. into the woods without a chance between a rock and a hard place toward him Remember to use the objective case of pronouns in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-98","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanboard.org\/Subjects\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanboard.org\/Subjects\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanboard.org\/Subjects\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanboard.org\/Subjects\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanboard.org\/Subjects\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/americanboard.org\/Subjects\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/98\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":469,"href":"https:\/\/americanboard.org\/Subjects\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/98\/revisions\/469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanboard.org\/Subjects\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}