Prepositional meanings
Matching exercise
Decide what the
preposition (or postposition) signals.
Barring mishaps, we'll be there
For all his efforts the game was lost
The weather aside, we had a good day out
From what little she said, I can't be sure
She ran for the exit
He lectured on Scottish history
It came out of the forest
It was covered with old tarpaulins
It was covered by a tarpaulin
He got the money for me
We asked for information
They ran to the door
intended destination
motive
subject
means
achieved destination
reason
agent
negative causality
source
target
concession
exclusion