Summary
Summary:
Mr. Kamal was born on 7 April 1980 in a village in Pabna and completed his education locally before moving to Rajshahi for higher studies. The passage explains the role of prepositions, which connect nouns to other words, indicating time, place, and relationships. Examples include phrases like "born at 3 o'clock" for time and "lives in a village" for place.
Prepositions from the provided exercises:
- Library in our school
- Borrow books from the library
- Keep a borrowed book for two weeks
- Pay a fine for late return
Participants are asked to fill in blanks with appropriate prepositions in sentences and describe the positions of objects using prepositions, as illustrated by “the file is on the table.”
A Read the following passage and notice the underlined words:
Mr. Kamal was born on 7 April 1980 at a small village in the district of Pabna. He completed his primary and secondary education from two local schools. Then he came to Rajshahi for higher education.
These words are prepositions. A preposition is a word which is used before a noun (or anything equivalent to a noun) and relates it to another word in the sentence. Prepositions usually express time, space and other relationships:
Time: He was born at 3'clock on 9 February in 1999.
Place: He lives at a small village in Bangladesh.
B Identify prepositions in the following passage:
We have a library in our school. We can borrow books from this library. But we cannot use any book without the permission of the librarian. We can keep a borrowed book for two weeks. If anybody fails to return a book within that time, they have to pay a fine.
C. There are many such prepositions in English. The picture below is the use of prepositions and you complete the following sentences with appropriate prepositions:
- This lesson is ______ prepositions.
- He goes _____ bed ._____ten o'clock.
- We reached there _____ lunch time.
- She sat _____ me.
- There is no difference _______ them.
- There is a school _______ our house.
- The cat sat _______ the table.
- I went ______ Dhaka ______ my father.
- We cannot live ______ water.
- The dog jumped ____ the wall.
D Look at the picture and describe the positions of things in it using prepositions. One is done for you:
In the picture, the file is on the table.
