PREPOSITIONS

 

CORRECT USE OF PREPOSITION IN SENTENCES EXEMPLIFIED:   1 .I acquit you of all complicity in the crime ,and hope you will be compensated for the annoyance entailed upon you by the groundless imputation. 2. I was horrified at the sight of so much distress . 3. He did not die of cholera but from effects of overexposure to the sun at an unhealthy time of the year. 4. This shopkeeper deals in grain, be he did not deal honestly with me and I shall have no more dealings with him in future . 5. You will have to answer to me for your misconduct.  6.Forst students competed with one another for a single scholarship. 7. I must consult with you on that matter shortly . 8.Do not exult offensively in the victory you have won over your rivals. 9.He is not possessed of much wisdom but possessed with a very high notion of his own importance.10 .will you entrust me with that letter ? No ,I will entrust nothing to you. 11. Always be prepared for the worst. 12.That motive prevails with me . 13. I prevailed on him to make the attempt ,but he could not prevail over his adversary. 14 .I rejoiced not only in my own success,but also at yours. 15.We must provide for our children against the evil day. 16.Some men remain stick to their point. 17. Why do you stare me in the face? It is bad manners to stare at one in that manner. 18. The ship touched at gibralater. She touched upon the subject of tides. 19. He supplied money to the men, and they supplied his horses with provender. 20 .He could smile at their treats, for fortune continued to smile on him. 21. They proceeded with the business that they had commenced yesterday ,before they proceeded to the consideration of any new questions. 22 .Do not live for riches ,but whatever you live for ,live by honest labour,and if you have to live on a small income ,live within yours means.   23. He is labouring under a misapprehension ,but he thinks he is labouring on a good cause and for the public welfare. 24. He once laid me under an obligation ,and therefore ,I am very unwilling to lay the blame of this affair to his charge. 25 .He not only intruded into my house but upon my leisure ,for I was engaged at that time in reading an interesting book. 26 .The railways intersect with each other at this place . 27. Let me intercede with you for my friend. 28 .I enquire of him concerning that matter. 29. He is impressed with that notion ,and he desires to impress it on me .30. The river to which I went with my brother abounas in fish: we took a boat and rowed across the stream to the opposite bank. 31. He promised to abide by the contract ,and they relied on his honour for it's fulfilment. But they were disappointed of their hopes, and found they could never trust their work to him again. 32. He lives at small cost, and be does so by abstaining from every kind of luxury and accustoming himself to humble fate such as in suitable to a person of small income . 33 .The person  who stood before the judge yesterday was accused of throwing a stone at his neighbour,s window ,but nothing more came of the matter, and be was acquitted of the charge imputed to him.  34. I am vexed with him for what he has done. 35. A man is adapted for any occupation, which is adapted to his capacities.