Assignment 11

Discussion:so much "of"

Message 1 - posted by MiniKobe (U14017684) , 15 Hours Ago

There are so much "of" in the sentence below.

[The law of gravity summarizes measurements of the effect of gravity on objects of different mass.]

1.How to understand the relationship between the nouns which are conected by "of" well?

2.Is there another way to express this sentence without using so much "of"?

THX^^


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Message 2 - posted by Jay* (U2975371) -networker, 12 Hours Ago

Prepositions give so much information in English that it is diffiecult to be understood without them.
" of" has many different meanings.
the fisrt two instances, it shows possession.
I can rewrite them to say, "gravity's law" and "gravity's effect".
In the last phrase it is a function word to show a relationship between the object and its mass.

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