Business English Part 40

26. _Can_ I take your pencil? _May_ I take your pencil?

27. We expect to _get up_ a club. We expect to _organize_ a club.

28. Did you notice how that show Did you notice how that show window was _got up_? window was _decorated_?

29. It is _going on_ ten o'clock. It is _almost_ ten o'clock.

30. He said _to go_ at once. He said _that we should go_ at once.

NOTE.--The secretary's daily report will be found an excellent means of securing variety of expression in pupils' writing. A different pupil is elected each Monday to act as the secretary of the cla.s.s for the ensuing week, his duty being to report each day the doings of the cla.s.s on the preceding day. The conditions are that not more than one _and_ be used in each report and not more than one sentence begin with the subject.

FOOTNOTES:

[2] See note on page 115.

[3] _Loan_ for _lend_, though common in the United States, is not in approved use except sometimes in financial language.--_Webster's New International Dictionary._

CHAPTER IX

THE PREPOSITION AND THE CONJUNCTION

Prepositions

IT is important in the study of prepositions to observe that there are certain words that are followed by certain prepositions. To change the preposition is to convey a different meaning from the one that the speaker intended, or to convey no meaning at all. A partial list of such words with their appropriate prepositions follows:

accompanied with anything having no life accompanied by anything having life

acquit of

accuse of

adapted to a thing adapted for a course, because of one's nature adapted from an author

agree to a plan or proposition agree with a person agree upon something that must be decided

angry at a thing angry with a person

compare with to bring out similar qualities compare to without a.n.a.lyzing

comply with

confer on meaning to give to confer with meaning to talk to

confide in meaning to put faith in confide to meaning to commit to one's keeping

conform to

correspond to, with a thing, denoting similarity correspond with meaning to write to

different from

dependent on a person dependent for a thing

independent of

disappointed in

employed at a certain place or salary employed in a certain kind of business employed by a certain person or company

enter upon duties enter at a door

followed by

influence over, upon

expect of

partic.i.p.ate in

profit by

remonstrate against a thing remonstrate with a person

=Exercise 125=

Insert the correct preposition in the following:

1. I shall comply ---- your request.

2. The chairman came upon the platform accompanied ---- the speaker.

3. He took a walk accompanied ---- his dog.

4. The lecture will be accompanied ---- stereopticon views.

5. Strikes are usually accompanied ---- riots.

6. The years of prosperity were followed ---- years of famine.

7. He was accused ---- theft, but was acquitted ---- the accusation.

8. She is well adapted ---- the position that is open.