Answer:
The prepositions used in the following sentences are in, across, of, from, to at, and before.
Explanation:
- in cats, dogs, and elephants
- in some reptiles
- across Ortega Bay
- of whitewashed stone
- from the local stone quy
- to the pier
- of the island
- of the boat
- from the mainland
- at the stroke of ten
- from the mainland
- to the residents
- on the island
- of the passengers on the boat
- of the boat to port
- from her father
- of his
- for many years
- of his salary
- before he retired
- for twenty years
- of his daughter
- in his footsteps
The purpose of a prepositional phrase is to connect different elements of a sentence and show the relationship between them. The only elements they must include are a preposition and an object of the preposition.
Brian save the pieces of aluminum from the <span>fuselage to be used by him in his stay in the forest. He could use it to signal airplanes hovering above the forest by finding sunlight. The light that would be reflected with the aluminum can catch the attention of possible airplane flying above him.</span>
Jane refuses to be obsequious. Another word for obsequious is obedient.
The sentence that best reveals the context is: "With the end of the cold war there was the creeping concern that without a focus for hatred and distrust, a sense of national identity would evaporate, that the left side of the hyphen—African-American, Mexican-American, Irish-American—would overwhelm the right."
By reading "...the end of the cold war...", the reader infers the time the story is set in. The Cold War started after the Second World War (1945) and ended in 1991 with the end of the Soviet Union.
In addition, by reading "...the left side of the hyphen - African-American, Mexican-American, Irish-American - would overwhelm the right", readers can deduce that the author is referring to the US and its fear of loosing a sense of nationalism and unity among its diverse population.
In all, the setting is the US in the early 90's because of the reference to the end of the Cold War and the fear of not being unified anymore.
