Question

   Which of the following sentences uses prepositions correctly?        A. For years, my parents differed from each other on politics.   B. I sat between my mother, sister, and brother-in-law.   C. The school bus finally arrived at the museum.   D. She might of gone to the party if it started earlier.
Some ppl say they took the exam and it was B, while many others that have 5-star ratings say it's C. Please help me sauce through those two options with very detailed analyses on both of them.

Answer 1

The sentence that uses preposition correctly is;

"The school bus finally arrived at the museum".

"at" is the preposition and "at the museum" is the prepositional phrase.

Further Explanation;

Preposition

• Prepositions are words that connects pronouns, nouns, or phrases with other words in a sentence. They are words that appear before a direct object or an indirect object.
• Prepositions act to connect objects, time, locations and directions of a given sentence. They are normally short words that are followed by a noun or a pronoun.
• Examples of prepositions include; since, at, before, after, besides, under, over, into, in, etc.  

Preposition phrases

• They are phrases that contain a preposition as the head, an object or a noun and a modifier.  
• Examples of preposition phrase; at the museum in the sentence, “The school bus finally arrived at the museum”.  
• Prepositions introduce the object of a prepositional phrase. In the case, “at” is the preposition, and “the museum” is the subject of the preposition.

Functions of preposition

Preposition may perform the following functions

• Act as an adjective modifying a noun  
• Act as a verb modifying a verb  
• They also act as particles in phrasal verb. For example in; wake up, pass out, look up, etc
• etc

Key words: Preposition, preposition phrases, Uses of preposition phrases

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Level: High school

Subject: English  

Topic: Parts of speech  

Sub-topic: Preposition  

Answer 2

The school bus finally arrived at the museum.  

Further Explanation:

Most of the times, a preposition or postposition is combined with a noun or pronoun and it is called a compliment but the only difference here is that a preposition comes before a complement whereas a postposition comes after it. A Preposition is a word that is used to connect nouns, pronouns, and phrases in the sentence and they also act as connectors to objects, time and locations of a sentence. In English, the use of prepositions is much wider than the use of postpositions. The grammatical properties of prepositions are combined typically with one complement which most of the time is a noun or a phrase.  

In the above question, the right way to use preposition is given in option C which says “The school bus finally arrived at the museum” and ‘at’ is working as a joiner here.  

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Answer Details:

Grade: High School

Chapter: Prepositions

Subject: English

Keywords:

Preposition, postposition, Nouns, Complement, Noun, Phrase, Latin, Pronoun, Complement, Grammatical, Typical.