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Saturday, February 2, 2019

How to Use Prepositions

How to Use Prepositions*

PrePosition of Time
PrePosition of Place

PrePositions
OF Time
AT, IN, ON

We use:
AT for a precise time
IN for Months, Years, Centuries
& Long Periods
ON Days & Dates

1⃣ AT
For a Precise Time
*At*3 o'clock
*At*10 am
At Noon
At DinnerTime
At BedTime
At SunRise
At SunSet
At the Moment on
New Year's Eve...
Examples
🔸I have a meeting at 9am.
🔹The Shop closes at Midnight.
🔸He went home at Lunchtime...

2⃣ IN
For Months, Years, Centuries & Long Periods

In May on Sunday
In Summer
In the Summer
In 1990
In the1990s
In the Bext Century
In the Ice Age
In the Past/Future...
Examples:
🔸In England, it often snows in December.
🔹Do you think we will go to Jupiter in the future?
🔸There should be a lot of progress in the Next Century...

3⃣ ON
Days & Dates

On 25 Dec.2010
On Christmas Day
On Independence Day
On My Birthday
On Tuesdays
On 6 March...
Examples:
🔹Do you work on Mondays?
🔸Her Birthday is on 20 November.
🔹Where will you be on New Year's Day?

👉🏻NOTE:
When we say Last, Next, Every, this we do not use AT, IN, ON.

🔸I went to London last June.
(Not👉🏻in last June)
🔹He's coming back next Tuesday.
(Not👉🏻on next Tuesday)
🔸I go home every Easter.
(Not👉🏻at every Easter)
🔹We'll call you this evening.
(not👉🏻in this evening)
💎💎💎💎💎
🌍
Prepositions
OF Place
AT - IN - ON

1⃣ AT a Point

AT👈🏻tells us that the following Noun is located at a Specific Point oR Location.
It shows an exact Position.

At The Empire State Building
At the Corner
At the Bus Stop.
At the door.
At the Top of Page.
At the End of the Road
At the Entrance.
At the Cross Roads.
At the Front desk
At a Conference.
At a Party
Examples
🔸She's waiting at the entrance.
🔹He's sitting on his Chair at his Desk.
🔸I work at a Bank
🔹There is a dog at the Top of the Steps.
🔸There is a woman at the Bottom of the Steps.
🔹The postman is at the door.
🔸There is a Supermarket at the End of the Street.

2⃣ IN
🅰 IN an Enclosed Space

IN👈🏻tells us the Noun is in an EnClosed Space (Surround oR Closed off on all Sides).
Basically, when Something is inside Something.

In a Box.
In a Room.
In a Country.
In a Traffic jam
In Time Square
In a Building
In a Car
in a Taxi
In a Boat
In a Helicopter
In a Lift (Elevator)
In the Living-Room
In the Article

🅱 IN Countries,
Cities, Neighborhood

In England
In London
In Manhattan
In Chinatown
Examples:
🔹The Dog is in the Garden.
🔸I have an Apple in my bag.
🔹David’s Car is in the Car Park.
🔸Let’s go for a Walk in the Forest.
🔹I live in London.

3⃣ ON

🅰 ON a Surface
ON👈🏻tells us that the following Noun is Located on a Surface. Use On when One thing is attatched to oR touching Somthing.

On the Table.
On the Floor.
On the Chair.
On a Wall
On the Roof
On the Menu
On the Page
On the Door
On the Shelf
Examples:
🔸What’s that on the Ceiling?
🔹There’s a bag on the Floor.
🔸My Books are on the Table.

🅱 ON Means
of Transport:
On a Bus
On a Train
On a Plane
On a Ship
On a Bicyc/Bike
On a Horse

FIGURES OF SPEECH

Figure-of-Speech may be classified as under:

1. Those based on resemblance
• Simile
• Metaphor
• Personification
• Apostrophe

2. Those based on Contrast:
• Antithesis
• Epigram
* Oxymoron
* Paradox

3. Those based on Association:
• Metonymy
• Synecdoche

4. Those depending on Construction:
• Climax
• Anticlimax

1. ALLITERATION : Alliteration refers to the repetition of of an initial consonant sound, at least three times in a sentence. 

EXAMPLES :
• A peck of pickled peppers
• Don't delay dawns disarming display. Dusk demands daylight.
• Sara's seven sisters slept soundly in sand.
• Sally sells sea shells by the seashore”

2. SIMILE :  In Simile, a comparison is made between two object of different kinds which have at least one point in common. The Simile is introduced by the word ‘as…as’ or 'like'.

“Life is like a box of chocolates; you never know what you’re going to get”

EXAMPLES:
• As active as quicksilver
• As afraid as a grasshopper
• As ageless as the sun
• As agile as a cat
• As agile as a monkey
• As alert as a bird
• As alike as two peas
• As alone as a leper
• As alone as Crusoe
• As ambitious as the devil

3. METAPHOR : An implied comparison between two unlike things that actually have something important in common (as if two things were one.)

EXAMPLES:
• The camel is the ship of the desert.
• Life is a dream.
• The news was a dragger to his heart.
• Revenge is a kind of wild justice.
• “My heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on a lonely hill”

* NOTE : Every SIMILE can be compressed into a METAPHOR, and Every METAPHOR can be expanded into a SIMILE.

EXAMPLES:
• Tanaji fought as fiercely as a loin. (Simile)
• Tanaji was a lion in the fight. (Metaphor)

• The waves thundered on the shore. (Metaphor)
• The waves broke on the shore with noise like a thunder. (Simile)

•My love is like a red, red rose,
That's newly sprung in June. (Simile)
• Love is a rose but you better not pick it. (Metaphor)

4. ANTITHESIS : In Antithesis, a striking opposition or contrast of words or sentiments is made in the same sentence. It is employed to secure emphasis.

EXAMPLES:
• Man proposes, but God disposes.
• Not that I loved Caesar less, but I loved Rome more.
• Speech is silver, but Silence is Gold.
• Many are called, but few are chosen.
• To err is human, but to forgive on divine.

5. OXYMORON : A figure of speech in which  contradictory terms appear side by side or at once of the same thing.

EXAMPLES:
• She accepted it as the kind cruelty of surgeon’s knife.
• It is an open secret.

6. PARADOX : A statement that appears to contradict itself in the same sentence.

EXAMPLES :
“War is peace. Ignorance is strength. Freedom is slavery.” Though we know these things aren’t true, they present an interesting paradox that makes a person think seriously about what they have just read or heard.

7. IRONY : The use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning.  It is often used to poke fun at a situation that everyone else sees as a very serious matter.

EXAMPLES :
“Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here! This is the War Room!”

8. APOSTROPHE :  An Apostrophe is a direct address to the dead, to the absent, or to a personified object or idea. This figure is a special form of Personification.

EXAMPLES:
• Milton! You should not be living at this hour.
• Friend! I know not which way I must look for comfort.
• Roll on! Thou deep and dark blue Ocean, roll.
• Death! Where is thy sting? O Grave! Where is thy victory?

9. EUPHEMISM : Euphemism consists in the description of a disagreeable thing by an agreeable name.

EXAMPLES:
• You are telling me a fairy tale. (You are telling me lies)
• He is gone to heaven. (He is dead)
•We have to let you go. (You're fired.)
•You're well fed. (You're fat.)

10. HYPERBOLE : Hyperbole is an exaggerated statement for the purpose of emphasis or heightened effect.

EXAMPLES:
• Why, man, if the river is dry, I am able to fill it with tears.
• Hmalet! You have not cleft my heart in twain.
•“It was as big as a mountain! It was faster than a cheetah! It was dumber than a rock!”

11. SYNECDOCHE : A figure of speech in which a part is used to represent the whole

EXAMPLES :
ABCs for alphabet or the whole for a part
England won the World Cup in 1966.
Seeing eyes, helping hands.

12. ONOMATOPOEIA : This is the use of a word that actually sounds like what it means.

Onomatopoeia (pronounced ON-a-MAT-a-PEE-a) refers to words (such as bow-wow and hiss ) that imitate the sounds
   
Good examples include “hiss” or “ding-dong” or “fizz.”

13. PERSONIFICATION : In Personification, inanimate objects and abstract notions are spoken of as having life and intelligence.

This is a way of giving an inanimate object the qualities of a living thing.

EXAMPLES:
• Death lays its icy hands on King.
• Pride goes forth on horseback, grand and gay.
• Laughter is holding her both sides.
•“The tree quaked with fear as the wind approached”
•“The sun smiled down on her”

14. PUN : A play on words , sometimes on different senses of the same word and sometimes on the similar sense or sound of different words.

A form of wordplay using similar sounding words.

EXAMPLES:
“The wedding was so emotional that even the cake was in tiers (tears).”

“Two silk worms had a race and ended in a tie.” - A “tie” can of course either be when neither party wins, but in this pun also refers to the piece of clothing usually made from silk.

“Why can a man never starve in the Great Desert? Because he can eat the sand which is there. But what brought the sandwiches there? Why, Noah sent Ham, and his descendants mustered and bred.” - There are several separate puns, including the pun on “sand which” and “sandwich,” as well as “Ham” (a Biblical figure) and “ham” and the homophonic puns on “mustered”/“mustard” and “bred”/“bread.”

15. METONYMY : A figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it's closely associated. Metonyms make associations or substitutions.

In some ways it can be seen as a nickname for something else.
However, we all understand the meaning, and so the words are interchangeable.

EXAMPLES:
The place name "Bollywood," has become a metonym for the Hindi film industry.

Using the word “crown” for “king or queen” or “lab coats” for “scientists”.

“The White House said” doesn’t actually mean the White House said it (a house can’t speak!) but that the President of America (who lives in The White House)  said it.

16. RHETORICAL QUESTION :  A rhetorical question is a question that is asked not to get an answer, but instead to emphasize a point. They are often used to elicit thought and understanding on the part of the listener or reader.

EXAMPLES :
"Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?"

We also use rhetorical questions in common speech, such as the following statements:

Sure, why not?
Who knew?
Does it look like I care?
Are you kidding me?
Do birds fly?
Is the sky blue?

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4.Plus two short NOTES ON DISCOURSES
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