ANSWER 4: The practices of PREPOSITION

These are the answers for the exercise of preposition.

1. on 
2. in 
3. at 
4. with 
5. on
6. among
7. for
8. in
9. of 
10. after
11. by
12. from
13. across, towards
14. At
15. Since 

Don't forget that you can always review the lessons at http://grammar520.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-introduction-of-preposition.html. 

PRACTICE 4: PREPOSITION-----Practise makes perfect.

Instructions: For each question, fill in the best answer.

1. My best friend lives ______ Boretz Road. 
2.  I'll be ready to leave ______ about twenty minutes.
3.  Since he met his new girlfriend, Juan never seems to be ______ home.
4. The child responded to his mother's demands ______ throwing a tantrum. 
5. I think she spent the entire afternoon ______ the phone.
6. The children are chasing one another _______ the bushes.
7. My fingers were injured so my sister had to write the note _____ me. 
8.  I am not interested _____ buying a new car now.
9.  What are the main ingredients ______ this casserole?
10. My best friend, John, is named ______ his great-grandfather.
11.  He usually travels to Philadelphia _______ train.
12. The professor _______ South Africa amazed the American students with her stories. 
13. He dashed _______ the street and ran _______ me.
14. I'll see you ____ home when I get there. 
15.  It's been snowing ________ Christmas morning.

LESSON 4: PREPOSITION

A preposition is a word which precedes a noun (or a pronoun) to show the noun's (or the pronoun's) relationship to another word in the sentence.

Most prepositions are single words, although there are some that consist of more than one word, such as out of and in between.  

(The word preposition comes from the idea of being positioned before. It is not true to say that a preposition always precedes a noun or a pronoun, but it does most of the time.)

Think of a preposition as anywhere a mouse could go:

Preposition is mostly used to indicate time and location.

For example:

Subject + Verb, Preposition, Noun (or gerund / ‘ing’ verb)

Subject	Preposition	Noun (or gerund)
The dog is	in	the kennel
The man sits	on	the chair
The tree is	behind	the house
He got dressed	after	bathing

Here is a list of  common one –word prepositions that are used to talk about place or destination. 

About	before	Down	Opposite	Toward (am)
Above	Behind	From	Outside	Towards
Across	below	In	over	under
Along	Beneath	Inside	Past	Underneath
Alongside	beside	Into	Round	Up
Among	Between	Near	Through	Within
Around	Beyond	Off	Throughout
at	by	On	to

      ·         Note that toward and towards are both used in American English, with no differences in meaning.

Here is a list of prepositions that consist of more than one word and that are used to talk about place and destination. 

Across from	Away from	In between	Next to
Ahead of	Close by	In front of	On top of
All over	Close to	Near to	Out of

·         Be careful because English has a large amount of prepositions and some of them, such as beside, by, near and next to are very close in meaning. Other prepositions, for example at and in, have several different meanings. The meaning and usage of prepositions should be checked where possible in a dictionary.

LESSON 3: NOUN

What Are Nouns?

Nouns are incredibly important in spoken and written language, but the good news is that they're also pretty easy to understand. 

Figuring out the basics of how nouns operate in sentences will help you learn lots of other more complex rules down the road.

Definition of Nouns

A noun is a part of speech, and parts of speech simply refer to types of words. 

You may be familiar with a lot of basic parts of speech, like nouns, verbs, and adjectives. 

Nouns identify people, places, and things. 

Nouns can be categorized as either common or proper. 

Common nouns name general people, places, things, and ideas.

Proper nouns name specific people, places, things, and ideas. 

For example, examples of nouns naming people would be:

Common Noun                     Proper Noun

      president                          Barack Obama

      teacher                              Mrs. Sanders

In our first column, we have general, or common, nouns. 

In our second column, we have specific, or proper, nouns.

Note that typically, the first letter in a common noun isn't capitalized unless that common noun is the first word in a sentence. 

The first letter in a proper noun is typically capitalized. 

Types of nouns

A noun refers to a person, animal or thing. 
Some examples are:

Nouns referring to places

Argentina

airport

Nouns referring to people

    girl              boy

      Grace         Edward

Nouns referring to animals and things

animal

book

ANSWER 3: The practices of NOUN

1. I wrote every word of the letter. 
2. The house was near the city.
3. Why did he get on an elevator? 
4. She has my phone.
5. Your younger brother was busy. 
6. A group of three generals sent the troops away. 
7. The flag was near our desk.
8. My mother acted in a play.
9. He called the house everyday. 
10. You have to give her salary and benefits.
11. She read the play over again. 
12. The actions became monotonous. 
13. He felt that his marriage, his relationship with her, was strong. 
14. The time had finally come to confess the truth. 
15. He’s the boy who delivers the paper. 

PRACTICE 3: Have Fun on this Practice of NOUN

Underline the nouns in the sentences below.

Sample: The repair of my camera went smoothly. 

1. I wrote every word of the letter. 
2. The house was near the city.
3. Why did he get on an elevator? 
4. She has my phone.
5. Your younger brother was busy. 
6. A group of three generals sent the troops away. 
7. The fag was near our desk.
8. My mother acted in a play.
9. He called the house everyday. 
10. You have to give her salary and benefits.
11. She read the play over again. 
12. The actions became monotonous. 
13. He felt that his marriage, his relationship with her, was strong. 
14. The time had finally come to confess the truth. 
15. He’s the boy who delivers the paper.