Question

There was no electricity at the house – he took out box of matches lit of kerosene lamp​

Answer 1

Sentence given with a blank:

There was no electricity at the house ___ he took out box of matches lit of kerosene lamp.

What to insert?

→A preposition appropriate to this given sentence.

Answer:

There was no electricity at the house then he took out box of matches lit of kerosene lamp.

Preposition:

A preposition is a word or a group of words placed before a noun or a pronoun to show it's relationship with other noun or pronoun in a sentence.

Kinds of preposition:

1. Simple preposition
2. Compound preposition
3. Participial preposition

Prepositional phrase :

This is a very important part of it and many ignore and they have lack of it.

We can define it as a groups of words that has one or more prepositions as a part of it, these group of words are called prepositional phrase.

Examples are given:

• at home in
• at the top of
• because of
• by means of
• etc...

This all are prepositional phases.