Hill 13. Prepositions
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Read the text and type the prepositions: ABOUT, IN, TO, ON, OF, FROM, OUT, and ZERO for no prepositions in each box.
Dick lived [in] England.
[In] January he said [to] his wife,
"I'm going to fly [to] New York [zero] next week, because I've got some work there again."
"Where are you going to stay there?" his wife asked.
"I don't know yet," Dick answered.
"Please send me your address [from] there [in] a telegram," his wife said.
"All right," Dick answered.
He flew [to] New York [on] January 31st [in] a plane and found a nice hotel [in] the centre [of] the city.
He put his things [in] his room and then he sent his wife a telegram.
He put the address of his hotel [in] it.
[In] the evening he did not have any work, so he went [to] a cinema.
He came out [at] nine o'clock and said,
"Now I'm going to go back [to] my hotel and have a nice dinner."
He found a taxi, and the driver asked, "Where do you want to go?"
But Dick did not remember anything [about] his hotel - neither the name nor address [of] it.
"Which hotel are my things in?" he said. "And what am I going to do tonight?"
But the driver [of] the taxi did not know, so Dick got [out] and went [to] a telegraph office. There he sent his wife another telegram, and [in] it he wrote,
"Please send me my address [to] this telegraph office."
1. at?
"Please send me my address [to] this telegraph office." - e-repa
Please send me my address at this telegraph office - the book - буду ждать на почтамте
2. in as a preposition of time vs. at/on
in two days = через 2 дня см. in vs. on (коллектор). In + количественное числительное = доступность через столько-то "контейнеров".
but
нахождение в "контейнере"
In January he said to his wife = в январе он сказал своей жене
in 1945 = в 1945 году
in Summer = летом
in the morning/evening/afternoon = утром/вечером/днем (указывает на конкретную часть суток). In the evening he did not have any work, so he went to a cinema.
vs.on
on Monday = в понедельник (указывает на какой-либо день/событие).
on a frosty morning = морозным утром (указывает на день/время суток/событие с определением)
on the morning of July 4, 1999 = утром 4-го июля 1999 года (указывает на день/время суток/событие с определением)
on the first of May = первого мая (указывает на дату)
He flew to New York on January 31st in a plane and found a nice hotel in the centre of the city.
vs. at
at four o'clock / at that time = в четыре часа / в то время (указывает на какой-либо момент времени)
at noon / at night / at day = в полдень / ночью / на заре (указывает на какой-либо период времени)
Registration opens at noon.
I am to go this day at noon, as I told you, to Bucklebury: we dine at twelve, and expect to be there in four hours.
My phone rang exactly at noon.
Between the time Jack started work on Thursday at noon and four o'clock, when the Tap's usual after-work crowd started to come in
The conclusion
Предлоги времени показывают эволюцию представлений о времени и степень дифференцирования временных периодов.
1) in - пространственное представление о времени, низкая степень абстракции, низкая дифференциация: год/сезон/месяц, день четко на четыре части (артикль определенный) - это все "контейнеры".
2) on - представление о времени как о линейной структуре ("стрела времени" и точки на ней), средняя степень абстракции, средняя дифференциация
3) at - современное представление о времени, 24 часа по 60 минут по 60 секунд, высокая степень абстракции, высокая степень дифференцирования.
3. in - на протяжении рассказа - везде сема "контейнер"
in England
in January
Please send me your address from there in a telegram, см. in vs. on (коллектор)
in a plane
in the centre of the city
in his room
еще примеры контейнеров
The flag fluttered in the breeze.
The smell of spring was in the air.
Explorer II is now deep in interstellar space.
He said in a loud voice.
Determiners
neither the name nor (za) address of it - стяжение
Десемантизированные глаголы
Dick got out and went to a telegraph office