WORDS AS BUILDING BLOCKS OF LANGUAGE Preposition & Conjunctions

WORDS AS BUILDING BLOCKS OF LANGUAGE

Preposition & Conjunctions

These are little words – „By‟, „To‟, „With‟, „About‟, „Over‟ etc and are used to make prepositional phrases which consist of a preposition plus its object that can be either a noun with or without adjective or a pronoun. For example,
 „In‟ the morning
 „Under‟ the bridge
 „By‟ Shakespeare
 „To‟ them
Prepositions come as a part of a package. They are bound by their objects to form prepositional phrases. These cannot be looked at in isolation!

Conjunctions

These are words used to join or conjoin words or group of words. Conjunctions have two sub classes:

(i) Coordinating conjunctions

These can be easily remembered by adopting an acronym of „FANBOYS‟.
F - For
A - And
N - Nor
B - But
O - Or
Y - Yet
S - So
A few illustrations are:
 Amit loves coconut „and‟ bananas.
 Sanjay is poor „but‟ honest.
 Ruchi wanted biscuit „or‟ chocolate

(ii) Subordinating conjunctions

They join or conjoin groups of words of unequal status and are not much in use.