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APPENDIX D: Prepositions
DIRECTIONS: Study the list of prepositions. Then underline the prepositions in each
sentence. Circle the prepositional phrases (prepositions + modifiers + objects). The num-
ber in parentheses indicates how many prepositions you should find in each group of
sentences.

PREPOSITIONS

about behind except under

above below for '. underneath
across beneath from unlike
after beside in over until
"r.-
against between inside p'as~w .. ,;....... up
along beyond into since -, -
upon
among by like through: , versus
around despite near throughout with
as down of to within
at during off _ -. toward without

.EXERCISE DI (21 prepositions)

I. Advocacy of technology as the panacea for our environmental woes is not without
its detractors.
2. State Highway 227 runs east of U.S. Highway 101, from San Luis Obispo in the north to
Arroyo Grande in the south.
3. All four components of the MilkyWayappear to be embedded in a large, dark corona
of invisible material.
4. Over the last three decades, we have seen a consistent worldy,,;dedecline in member-
ship of private-sector international trade union federations.
5. There is not complete agreement on the correlation of the various cultures and the
glacial sequence, but many think that the Villafranchion, characterized by crudely
worked pebble tools, roughly spherical in form, belongs in the early phase of the First
Glacial period.
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EXERCISE D2 (35 prepositions)

1. A combination of factors appear to have led to the decline of the beetle, all of them
directly or indirectly due to human influence but none conclusively proven.

2. At ground level. ozone is produced by a photochemical interaction of the Sun with

gases such as nitrogen oxides and unburnt hydrocarbons.

3. The Army of the Potomac under General George Meade and the Army of Northern
Virginia under General Robert E. Lee had stumbled upon each other four days earlier
at the edge of this little Pennsylvania county seat of2,400 inhabitants.

4. With this sudden and vast wealth, by the turn of the ccnUlry, Trinity Church was an
ecclesiastical empire with 8,500 communicants and nine chapels scattered around
New York City besides the main church itself.

5. Through modern film footage, this video production retraces the route followed by
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark during their epochal two-year (1804-1806), eight-
thousand-mile round-trip journey by keelboat, on horseback, on fOOl, and by canoe up
the Missouri River, across the Continental Divide, and down the Snake and Columbia
Rivers to the Pacific Ocean.

E.XERCISE D3 (35 prepositions)

I. During the era from the end of the Civil War to about 1890, there was a land settlement
boom within the United States.

2. By coincidence, the Finnish results were released at the same time that an American
study confirmed the cancer-fighting potential of a chemical in broccoli known as
sulforaphane.

3. At windswept Kitty Hawk, along North Carolina's Outcr Banks, the Wright Brothers
National Mcmorial pays tribute to the brothers and their historic first flight on
December 17, 1903.

4. A wide central hall, running past the Garden Court, from one end of the building to
the other, has four large cases of souvenirs from both palaces, including a program
printed for President Warren G. Harding's visit.

5. Like historians raiding an archive of ancient texts. two atmospheric scientists are sifting
through old satellite data, looking for a means of extending ozone records back in time
in order to prove or disprove a hypothesis; on the basis of ground measurements made
in Antarctica since the 1950s, researchers believe that the annual Antarctic ozone hole
first appeared in a mild form during the late 1970s and then grew worse in the 1980s.