Chapter 12 OF THE PREPOSITIONS, ADVERBS, AND CONJUNCTIONS.

These have been considered at large in chapters 8, 9, 10, 11, and require now but little notice. We proceed to consider the prepositions which follow the verbs, and to offer a few other remarks respecting them.

Verbal postfixes.-An active verb will (as was observed page 60) take i after it, to denote the object of the action. Sometimes, however,