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§ 4. Some prepositions are homonymous with adverbs and conjunctions.

For instance, the prepositions after and before are homonymous with the adverbs after and before and with the conjunctions after and before.

There is an old saying that if a man has not fallen in love before forty, he had

better not fall in love after. (Shaw) (ADVERB)

When he got back to Ann Arbor, he found Savina in a state of excitement

because Trasker had heard from Regan after Erik had left. (Wilson)

(CONJUNCTION)

“Where do you intend to stay tonight?” she asked after a moment. (Wilson)

(PREPOSITION)

The colour rushed into Bosinney’s face, but soon receded, leaving it sallow-

brown as before. (Galsworthy) (ADVERB)

He did not write to her, and it was almost a year before he began to see her

again. (Wilson) (CONJUNCTION)

This letter seemed to afford her peculiar satisfaction; she read it through twice

before replying to the landlady. (Mansfield) (PREPOSITION)

Though identical inform, adverbs, prepositions, and conjunctions are different parts of speech. The adverb, unlike the preposition and conjunction, serves as part of the sentence, e. g. after is an adverbial modifier of time, etc.

§ 5. Some prepositions (on, in, by, over, off, up) are homonymous with postpositions.1

1 See Chapter VII, § 2.

A preposition as well as a postposition does not perform any independent function in the sentence. But while a preposition denotes the relation between objects and phenomena, a postposition is part of a composite verb.

A preposition is not usually stressed, while a postposition usually bears the stress.

We’ve got to live on what we earn. (Cronin) (PREPOSITION)

He liked Erik more than any of the assistants the department had taken on in a

long time, as much as he could like, one of the younger men. (Wilson)

(POSTPOSITION)

Chapter XIII

The conjunction

§ 1. The conjunction is a part of speech which denotes connections between objects and phenomena. It connects parts of the sentence, clauses, and sentences.

Sadie brought them in and went back to the door. (Mansfield)

...the blinds were down in the dining-room and the lights turned on — and all

the lights were red-roses. (Mansfield)

The other day I was saying to Fabermacher that Haviland isn’t really cruel,

he’s just thoughtless. And Fabermacher said that was the cruellest thing about

the human race. And he’s right. (Wilson)

§ 2. According to their morphological structure conjunctions are divided into the following groups:

(1) simple conjunctions (and, or, but, till, after, that, so, where, when, etc.).

Some of the simple conjunctions are homonymous with prepositions, adverbs, and pronouns.

(2) derivative conjunctions (until, unless, etc.).

(3) compound conjunctions (however, whereas, wherever, etc.). These conjunctions are few.

(4) composite conjunctions (as well as, as long as, in case, for fear (that), on the ground that, for the reason that, etc.).

Some conjunctions are used in pairs (correlatively): both... and, either... or, not only... but (also), neither... nor, whether... or.

If anyone had asked him if he wanted to own her soul, the question would

have seemed to him both ridiculous and sentimental. (Galsworthy)

...nor would John Reed have found it out himself; he was not quick either of

vision or conception. (Ch. Bronte)

Her son had not only come home, but he had come home a good person.

(Abrahams)

Well, they were honest eyes, he concluded, and in them was neither

smallness nor meanness. (London)

He was aware of vague memories of rain and wind and snow, but whether he

had been beaten by the storm for two days or two weeks he did not know.

(London)

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