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1、charlesn.prieur&elizabethchampionspeyerTheTheWriter'sGuideWriter'sGuidetotoPrepositionPrepositionss©©PREPOSITIONARY“TheoneandonlyPrepositionary”TheTheWWrriter'sGiter'sGuideuidetotoPPrrepositionepositionss©©GraphicDesign:MélissaLaniel&ZacHarrisCopyright©1988byCharlesN.PrieurandElizabeth
2、C.SpeyerAllrightsreservedYcharlesprieur&elizabethchampion-speyerTheTheWWrriter'sGiter'sGuideuidetotoPPrrepositionepositionss©©PREPOSITIONAR“TheoneandonlyPrepositionary”“Manytimesoneprepositionmightseemlogicallyjustasrightasanother.Anditisonlythattyrannical,capricious,utterlyincalcu-lable
3、thing,idiomaticusage,whichhasdecreedthatthispreposi-tionmustbeusedinthecase,andthatinanother...”LOGANPEARSALLSMITH-“WORDSANDIDIOMS”“Prepositions...causemoredifficulty...thananyotheraspectoftheEnglishlanguage.”J.B.HEATON-“PREPOSITIONSANDADVERBIALPARTICLES”“Nopartsofspeechmustbeusedmoreexactlyt
4、hanconnectives(prepositions)...”R.VOORHEES-“HANDBOOKOFPREPOSITIONS”“Theproperprepositionisamatterofidiom;andidioms,iftheydonotcome“naturally”,musteitherbelearnedorlookedup.”THEODOREM.BERNTEIN-“THECAREFULWRITER”Note:Weareindebtedtoallthosewehavequotedinour'prepositionary'.Wehaveattemptedtoret
5、urnthefavourbynotonlymentioningtheauthorsofthequotations,butthesourcesaswell;thusencouragingourreaderstoread,orreferto,theirworks.PREFACEURINGhislongcareerinadvertising,muchofitasawriter,CharlesPrieuroftenreachedDinvainforan‘instanthelp’referenceworkontheuseofEnglishprepositions--oneofthetri
6、ckiestaspectsofthelanguage.Hebegancollectingexamplesofrightprepositionuseinthecourseofhisreading.And,asthefileexpandedtovastproportions,heaskedhimself:"Whynotabook?"Butthebookkeptbeingdeferred,untilamutualfriendintroducedhimtoElizabethSpeyer,whosecareerwaseducation.InherworkattheCentreforthe
7、StudyandTeachingofWriting,attheFacultyofEducationofMcGillUniversity,Elizabethhadfoundthatprepositionusebaffledstudents,especiallythosenewtothelanguage.Prepositionchoiceiscapricious,relatedtomeaningandnuance,andlargelybasedoncustom.Together,Charlesa
