Prepositions Illustrated 9780472082896, 0472082892

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PREPOSITIONS ILLUSTRATED

Gloria Wahlen

ILLUSTRATED

BY Toni Acock

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MICHIGAN

Prepositions Illustrated

Prepositions Illustrated Gloria Wahlen

Illustrated by Toni Acock

Ann Arbor

THE

UNIVERSITY

OF MICHIGAN

PRESS

Copyright © by the University of Michigan

1995

All rights reserved ISBN 0-472-08289-2 Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 95-61197 Published in the United States of America by The University of Michigan Press Manufactured in the United States of America 2001

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No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, or otherwise, without the written permission of the publisher.

To Hank Wahlen, my husband and sounding board, whose patience and humor helped me across, over, and beyond the Sea of Prepositions.

This book would not exist had it not been for Margaret Freitag, who

saw the problems prepositions posed for ESL students and did something about them. Her original vision emanated from a paper she presented in Tokyo at the ESL convention in 1985. It was based on her years of experience teaching English to Japanese students and was restricted to the biggest preposition troublemakers:

on, to, at, and by.

She saw the antics of anthropomorphic eggplants as a non-ethnic, upbeat way to illustrate the various usages of these four words. Margaret’s editor at the University of Michigan Press, Mary Erwin, suggested she expand

the concept to include all the prepositions,

which she agreed to do. Her work on this version was under way and Margaret was researching the use of prepositions in other language families when she fell ill. Margaret’s death will not mean the end of her dream to make this contribution to the field she loved and excelled in. As her friend and fellow teacher, I feel privileged to have been asked to extend and complete Prepositions Illustrated, fruition.

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