Noting the function of prepositions and exploring some of the ways in which they are used.
I HAVE heard horror stories about the English that is learnt in Communication or is it Communicational or Communicative? English. Could the following be one such example: Red Riding Hood go grandmother house? Forget the verb form, and forget the grandmother whose possession of a house is in doubt. Then the sentence does make sense but up to a point. For the purpose of this column, I want to raise the point that a preposition can make some sense, but – referring back to the above example – did Red Riding Hood go to or by or around her grandmother’s house?
