| dc.description.abstract | Language is a group of part of speech. In English, part of speech is divided into eight
classes: noun, verb, adjective, adverb, conjunction, pronoun, preposition and
interjection. This thesis will discuss the use of English Preposition in some sentences
in Oscar Wilde’s Star-Child. Preposition is an important class of function word.
Prepositions are words which show the relationship between things, people or events.
They often express relationship in space and time, but they also express many other
kinds of relationship such as: place, purpose, possession, instrument, etc. Preposition
has some patterns when it is placed in a sentence. They are Preposition +
Noun/Pronoun, Preposition + -ing verb, and Preposition at the end of the
sentence. English preposition is divided into three categories, simple preposition,
compound preposition and preposition in –ing form. English preposition can be
used as a pure preposition and as an adverbial particle. As a pure preposition,
preposition indicates various relationships between words or phrases, such as
showing place, time, condition, purpose, addition, comparison, instrument, means,
manner, separation, partition, and cause. As an adverbial particle, preposition
combine with a verb to form a new vocabulary item. When a verb is used with an
adverbial particle the combination is called a phrasal verb. Adverbial particle can be
written in separated way or non-separated way. The adverbial particle can be written
in separated way when the object of phrasal verb is a noun or noun phrase, but the
adverbial particle can not be separated from the verb when the phrasal verb does not
have an object or the object of the phrasal verb is pronoun. The distinction of the use
of preposition and adverbial particle is the function of preposition forms a basic
meaning, but the adverbial particle forms a new meaning. | en_US |
