My friend Katie just called me. She was sitting at a bar in Seattle apparently having a discussion about parts of speech. The person she was chatting with was saying that prepositions are just adverbs and the names are interchangable. She disagreed and called me to use as a life-line to corroborate her opinion. I'd have to agree, prepositions are different from adverbs in the sense that they introduce prepositional phrases which can then act as either adverbs or adjectives. I remember in grade school we had to memorize a big list of prepositions but i'm pretty sure the list of adverbs is much longer.
Posted by Matthew at January 6, 2004 11:28 PM...I wish I had gone to your grade school.
Posted by: Kevin at January 9, 2004 02:53 PM