In response to the argument that the British have protected the colonies, Thomas Paine argues that while this is technically true, the British have only done so for their own economic gain, not out of a feeling of altruism.
Prepositions indicate direction, time, location, and spatial relationships, as well as other abstract types of relationships.
Prepositions indicate relationships between other words in a sentence.
Many prepositions tell you where something is or when something happened.
As the name suggests they generally tell position if something. Like, behind, front, on, at etc.
<span>"The long and meticulous study and debate" since everything else is just serving as details to it.</span>