Prepositions of neither space nor time

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Prepositions of neither space nor time발음듣기

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[Voiceover] Hey grammarians, we've talked about prepositions of time.발음듣기

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And we've talked about prepositions of space and I couldn't come up with a cute name for these.발음듣기

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Because the following five prepositions are examples of what we would call prepositions that have connotations for neither time nor space.발음듣기

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Some of them do have time connotations and some of them do have physical connotations and what we're going to talk about today, however, are the uses of these words, these prepositions, that don't have anything to do with time or space, they just have, they encode other relationships.발음듣기

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Let's get to it, I'll show you what I mean.발음듣기

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When we say about it can mean you're talking about a specific subject.발음듣기

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So I could say to you, "Tell me about yourself!"발음듣기

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The word by can be used to denote agency or doing this.발음듣기

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You'll see what I mean by that.발음듣기

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I mean we can figure out who is responsible for something with the use of the word by.발음듣기

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The book was written by Sudhir.발음듣기

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So who did the thing?발음듣기

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Sudhir did the thing, he's the person with agency, he's the doer.발음듣기

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The word for denotes use.발음듣기

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So if you were to ask me, for example, "David what's a wood chipper used to do?"발음듣기

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I would say, "It's for chipping wood, for turning wood into chips, it's purpose is chipping."발음듣기

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Of has this connotation of belonging or being part of a place.발음듣기

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So we can talk about the great green dragon of Inverness.발음듣기

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Inverness is a place, it's in Scotland.발음듣기

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Are there dragons there?발음듣기

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I don't know, I've never been.발음듣기

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And with means together or part of.발음듣기

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There goes that snail with the painted shell which indicates that the snail and the shell are part and parcel, they're together.발음듣기

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So yeah, so these prepositions can be used for all sorts of things.발음듣기

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I understand this can be confusing.발음듣기

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Prepositions are probably the most complicated part of English and the problem is you just need to memorize them.발음듣기

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But the good thing is that there aren't that many because, as I've said before, prepositions are a closed group, we don't mint new ones.발음듣기

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So you don't have to be constantly trying to collect more ones, or pick them up, or figure them out.발음듣기

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You have a limited set that you need to master and the way to do that is to read, and listen, and talk a lot.발음듣기

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You can do that, you can learn anything, David out.발음듣기

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