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MIDTERM EXAMINATIONS
Teaching and Assessment of Grammar
2nd Semester, A.Y. 2020-2021

Edgardo Y. Ursal
2nd yr. BSE-English

Prepositions, Conjunctions and Interjections

First is the prepositions, these are words that indicate time and place of something and a few
relationships. That’s why there are terms under it like preposition of place, preposition of time and
preposition of direction. It has been said that prepositions are among those aspects of language learning
that are so hard to grasp since one word can be used or mean in different ways. An example of this is
what we usually interchangeably use which is the preposition in, on, and at. The preposition ‘in’ is used
when indicating a time that is in a long period of time like months, years, decades or centuries. The
preposition ‘on’ is used when talking about particular holidays or days, making it more specific than the
first. The last one is the preposition ‘at’, which is the most specific one. Other common prepositions are
about, above, amid, by, until and many more.

Next is the conjunction that connects the ideas together. It has the three main types which are
the coordinating, subordinate and correlative conjunctions. Coordinating conjunctions are used to join
two independent clauses while subordinate conjunctions are used to join dependent clauses to
independent clauses. An acronym ‘FANBOYS’ are all examples of common conjunctions that correspond
to for, and, nor, but, or, yet, and so. Some of these are also used in correlative conjunctions but it comes
with pairs like for example ‘so’ and ‘as’, ‘either’ and ‘or’ and ‘not only’ and ‘but also’.

Last is the interjections which are used to express different strong emotions like fear, surprise,
anger, etc. It commonly has an exclamation point (!) after it. For example we have the ‘Wow!’, ‘Alas!’,
‘Ouch!’ and many more.