200k views
5 votes
Maya Angelou wrote I know why the caged bird sings about her early years, which word in the sentence is a preposition

2 Answers

4 votes
a preposition connects nouns and pronouns [ around, beneath, under, above, about, etc]
User HeikoG
by
7.8k points
3 votes

ABOUT

A preposition is a word (usually a short one) that are used to show a relationship between a noun or a pronoun and other words in a sentence. Prepositions are usually followed by nouns, pronouns or gerund verbs, they can also be found at the end of a sentence. They may express position, direction, movement, possession, time, how something is done.

"About" is a preposition because it is placed in front of a noun "her early years" while connecting a particular action (the singing of the caged bird) to another (her early years).

User Hashim Aziz
by
7.9k points
Welcome to QAmmunity.org, where you can ask questions and receive answers from other members of our community.