Relationships and Particles
Prepositions deal with relationships between words in a sentence like about, above, across, amid, among, around, at, atop, before, behind, below, beneath, beside. This is only a fraction of the prepositions I have memorized because of the song a teacher had us memorize in year 7. Examples of different relationships are accompaniment, means, direction, possession or agent. Every song you listen to has prepositions and below is a video with current songs with the prepositions underlined.
For the following activity, identify the prepositions in the following song titles:
From me to you -The Beatles
Don’t Stop ’Til you get Enough -Michael Jackson
Wake me up before you Go-Go -Wham!
New Moon on Monday -Duran Duran
Under the Sea- From the Soundtrack of Disney’s The Little Mermaid
Somewhere over the Rainbow- Judy Garland
Answer Key:
From me to you- The Beatles
Don’t Stop ’Til you get Enough -Michael Jackson
Wake me up before you Go-Go -Wham!
New Moon on Monday- Duran Duran
Under the Sea- From the Soundtrack of Disney’s The Little Mermaid
Somewhere over the Rainbow- Judy Garland
Particles are the second part of a two-part transitive verb. In the following exercise, one sentence contains down as a preposition while the other contains down as part of a particle.
Exercise:
Identify which word makes “down ”a particle.
- Dorothy ran down the yellow brick road.
- Dorothy turned down an invitation.
Sentence two would be the correct answer because “down the yellow brick road” could stand alone as a sentence while “down an invitation” could not.