Learn your damn prepositions people.

[Juggler]

If I had a nickel for every time this happened I'd probably own California.

I am sick of people coming in and asking for a book "on" author and when I take them to the biographies telling me that they wanted something BY him.

This is one of the reasons I keep asking the boss to install an alligator pit with a trapdoor the staff control.

[kendiara]

Its still better than when they walk in and say, "I'm looking for a book...its blue."

[Retail Associate]

Ya got something against the color blue?

[Jester]

I saw the thread title and immediately flashed back to high school freshman English class and the Preposition Song.

[Calud]

If I had a nickel for every time this happened I'd probably own California.

So it happened twice then?

[Skeen]

I saw the thread title and immediately flashed back to high school freshman English class and the Preposition Song.

This wouldn't happen to be the Shirley Method preposition song, would it? "Preposition, preposition, starting with an 'A'..."

::shudder:: I was in 5th grade. My teacher hated that whole system and decided that instead of doing English, we'd learn about the rainforest all year. Good times!

[EricKei]

I feel so left out. We didn't get a Preposition Song, we just had the appendix at the back of the grammar book with THE LIST, which we were told to memorize.

[Green_Fairy]

Its still better than when they walk in and say, "I'm looking for a book...its blue."

sounds like a customer i had today. "i had a drink yesterday...it had coffee...and milk...and something else...what was it?"

[Jester]

This wouldn't happen to be the Shirley Method preposition song, would it? "Preposition, preposition, starting with an 'A'..."

Good lord, no! The Preposition Song, as we learned it, was merely the list of prepositions...to the tune of "Yankee Doodle Dandy."

It was rather amusing.

[Nerfball]

Prepositions are bad things to end sentences with.

[jackfaire]

I was looking for a book once I kept saying "it's like uhm almost like a demon encyclopedia"

Turned out that was the title

[blas]

Conjunction Junction was so much cooler

[lineswine]

This wouldn't happen to be the Shirley Method preposition song, would it?

It wouldn't...& don't call me Shirley </Mangled Airplane! quote>

[Retail Associate]

Heck, I don't even remember what a preposition is...is is a preposition??? My grade school days were waaaaaay back in the dark ages. For all I know, prepositions didn't even exist back then.

But when my son was in kindergarten they had the letter people. The one I remember best is "I'm Mr. M with the munching mouth. I munch morning to midnight, midnight to morning...MUNCHING MOUTH!"



He scared my son.

[Chromatix]

I don't know the definition of a preposition offhand, but it's interesting to note that in Finnish the same function is performed by suffixes.

Wikipedia says: "In English, the most used prepositions are "of", "to", "in", "for", "with" and "on". Simply put, a preposition indicates a relation between things mentioned in a sentence."

In Finnish, you would say "on Sunday" with "Sunnuntaina".