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Language. Read the following sentences. Underline the prepositions you find in the sentences.
1. His eldest son, Wunzh, was likewise kind and gentle and thankful of heart, and he longed greatly to do something for his people.
2. The time came that Wunzh reached the age when every Indian boy fasts so that he may see in a vision the Spirit that is to be his guide through life.
3. Wunzh's father built him a little lodge apart, so that the boy might rest there undisturbed during his days of fasting.
4. On the first day he walked alone in the woods looking at the flowers and plants and filling his mind with the beautiful images of growing things so that he might see them in his night-dreams.
5. And his heart was filled with even a greater longing to do something for his family and his tribe.
6. To him we owe our lives.
7. I must try to find this out in my vision.
8. So Wunzh returned to his lodge and fasted and slept.
9. On his head was a tuft of nodding green plumes, and all his motions were graceful and swaying.
10. He arose and wrestled with the stranger.
Language. Choose 5 compound prepositions and write sentences with them on the lines provided.
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
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