+Remarks+.--_Bating_, _concerning_, _during_, _excepting_,
_notwithstanding_, _pending_, _regarding_, _respecting_, _saving_, and
_touching_ are still participles in form and sometimes are such in use. But
in most cases the participial meaning has faded out of them, and they
express mere relations.
_But_, _except_, and _save_, in such a sentence as, All _but_ or _except_
or _save him_ were lost, are usually classed with prepositions.
The phrases _aboard of_, _according to_, _along with_, _as to_, _because
of_ (by cause of), _from among_, _from between_, _from under_, _instead of_
(in stead of), _out of_, _over against_, and _round about_ may be called
compound prepositions. But _from_ in these compounds; as, He crawled _from
under the ruins_, really introduces a phrase, the principal term of which
is the phrase that follows _from_.
Many prepositions become adverbs when the noun which ordinarily follows
them is omitted; as, He rode _past_; He stands _above_.
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LESSON 96.
CONSTRUCTION OF PREPOSITIONS.
+To the Teacher+.--Most prepositions express relations so diverse, and so
delicate in their shades of distinction that a definition of them based
upon etymology would mislead. A happy and discriminating use of
prepositions can be acquired only by an extended study of good authors.
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