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what is the purpose of a prepositions
What is the purpose of a preposition? -correct
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What is the purposes of prepositions?

A preposition describes a relationship between other words in a sentence.
e.g. The dog jumped into the lake -the preposition "into" shows direction
Our teacher is in the classroom-the preposition "in" shows location
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