Mónica Rivera: Sentences with two objects and prepositions.

Sentences with two objects and prepositions.

Some sentences have two objects. We often use a preposition between the two objects:

Verb + object of verb + preposition + object of preposition.

A preposition is a word which shows relationships among other words in the sentence.
The relationships include direction, place, time, cause, manner and amount.

The following words are the most commonly used prepositions:

about
below
excepting
off
toward
above
beneath
for
on
under
across
beside(s)
from
onto
underneath
after
between
in
out
until
against
beyond
in front of
outside
up
along
but
inside
over
upon
among
by
in spite of
past
up to
around
concerning
instead of
regarding
with
at
despite
into
since
within
because of
down
like
through
without
before
during
near
throughout
with regard to
behind
except
of
to
with respect to.

It is useful to locate prepositional phrases in sentences since any noun or pronoun within the prepositional phrase must be the preposition’s object and, therefore, cannot be misidentified as a verb’s direct object.

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