Meet the preposition

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Meet the preposition발음듣기

[Voiceover] Hey grammarians, I want to talk about prepositions but before I do I'm going to draw you a little hamster.발음듣기

Is it a hamster?발음듣기

Is it a tiny bear?발음듣기

Who knows? We're just going to call it a hamster, a little rodent type creature.발음듣기

Now I'm going to use this critter to establish what prepositions are and what they do because in addition to there being a hamster there's also going to be this box.발음듣기

So what prepositions do is they establish relationships between stuff in place and time so it can show us where things are, when things are, and how things are.발음듣기

Let me demonstrate.발음듣기

So, okay, using just this hamster and this box we can move this box around and talk about how the hamster relates to the box, right.발음듣기

So right now the box is under the hamster, let's write that down.발음듣기

Right, the box is under the hamster, that word under is a preposition because it's establishing this relationship of where.발음듣기

It's connecting the box to the hamster.발음듣기

The box is under the hamster.발음듣기

But if I move it up like so, now we can say the box is over the hamster.발음듣기

But let's get rid of the box and let's imagine that our hamster is having a midlife crisis.발음듣기

And our hamster decides it's going to go out and it's going to splurge on a fabulous, new hat, just an enormous top hat, a little band in the center, just a big, old, silly, Abe Lincoln style, stove pipe, top hat.발음듣기

Now, another use for prepositions is we can talk about when things are in relation to each other.발음듣기

So I could say, "Before the hamster got the hat and after the hamster got the hat."발음듣기

Right, and these words after and before express relationships in time.발음듣기

But another interesting thing that prepositions can do is they can also help express how something is or how it's, what it's for, what its use is.발음듣기

So we could say that this hat is for parties or is for wearing at parties.발음듣기

Oh, and at, also, is a preposition.발음듣기

This hat is for wearing at parties.발음듣기

So this is the how and this part is the where.발음듣기

So what's the purpose of the hat?발음듣기

Well, we established that with the word for, the hat is for wearing.발음듣기

The where is it supposed to be worn, at parties, that's the where.발음듣기

We can also use a word like of to express the how relationship and that's just sort of to say what belongs to whom.발음듣기

So we could say, "That is the hat of the hamster."발음듣기

That is the hat of the hamster.발음듣기

So that's what prepositions are in the most basic sense they can help you figure out what the relationship is between two things in time and space or how one thing relates to another.발음듣기

So you can figure out when, where, and how using prepositions.발음듣기

You can learn anything, David out.발음듣기

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