Prepositions of neither space nor time | The parts of speech | Grammar | Khan Academy Video Lecture | Complete Course on English Grammar: Upgrade your Speaking & Listening - Personal Skills

hey grammarians we we've talked about
prepositions of time and we've talked
about prepositions of space and I
couldn't come up with a cute name for
these because the the following five
prepositions are examples of what we
would call prepositions that have
connotations for neither time nor space
some of them do have time connotations
and some of them do have physical
connotations and what we're going to
talk about today however are the uses of
these these words these prepositions
that don't have anything to do with time
or space they just have they encode
other relationships let's get to it I'll
show you what I mean when we say about
it can mean you're talking about a
specific subject so I could say to you
you know tell me about yourself the word
buy can be used to denote agency or you
know doing this you'll see what I mean
by that I mean we can figure out who is
responsible for something with the use
of the word by the book was written by
Sudhir so who did the thing Sudhir did
the thing he's the the person with
agency is the doer the word Ford notes
use so if you were to ask me for example
uh David what's a wood chipper used to
do I would say it's for chipping wood
for turning wood into chips its purpose
is chipping of has this connotation of
belonging or being part of a place so we
could talk about the Great Green Dragon
of Inverness Inverness is a place it's
in Scotland are there dragons there I
don't know I've never been and with
means you know together or part of there
goes that snail with the painted shell
you know which indicate that the snail
and the shell are part and parcel
they're together so yeah so these
prepositions can be used for all sorts
of things I understand this can be
confusing the prepositions are probably
the most complicated part of English and
the problem is you just need to memorize
them but the good thing is that there
aren't that many but
as I've said before prepositions are a
closed group we don't mint new ones so
you don't have to be constantly trying
to collect more ones or pick them up or
figure them out you have a limited set
that you need to master and the way to
do that is to read and listen and talk a
lot you can do that you can learn
anything Dave it out