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