Examples of sentences with THROUGH

In addition to prepositions, in Spanish there are somewhat more complex constructions that are called prepositional phrases. A prepositional phrase is formed by two or more words that together they perform a prepositional function; in other words, it is a kind of preposition made up of several terms instead of a single preposition. This is why it is called a prepositional phrase. THROUGH is one of them. In this lesson from a PROFESSOR we will see various example sentences with THROUGH and we will explain why variants like * through and * through are not grammatically allowed.

In this article we are going to focus on the prepositional phrase THROUGH. But first it is convenient to be clear what is a prepositional phrase. Prepositional phrases are groups formed by two or more words (of which one is a preposition) that has a prepositional value.

These are characterized because they do not have a complete meaning in isolation, but it is necessary insert them into a sentence to make sense, as opposed to, for example, a noun phrase What

Car, which has meaning in itself without needing to be included in a sentence.

Here are some example sentences with THROUGH:

• She closes the window so cold comes through it.
• I am sending you the reports you requested through my co-worker.
• When my mother is alone she says that she hears noise through the walls of the house.
• Through the desert you come to an oasis.
• I can't see anything through the trees.
• The inmate put his hand out through the bars of his cell.
• The news leaked through the newspapers.
• The new spaceship is capable of traveling through space.
• My brother said goodbye to me through the glass of the car.
• Through the crowd, I got to see Jaime.
• The road through the village leads to the city.
• Light filtered through the glass in the door.

In this other lesson from a TEACHER we will discover different types of adverbial phrases.

You may have ever wondered why we say and write THROUGH and not * through or * through. Well, these last two expressions are grammatically incorrect because, for a prepositional phrase to exist, it must be an invariable construction; that is, in the case of THROUGH it always keeps this same structure, it has no gender or number.

In addition, no element can be inserted in the middle of the prepositional phrase (* long through, * through) nor can replace any of the elements that make it up with a synonym or any other word of the same grammatical category (* in through).

Finally, each and every its members are essential and none of them can be omitted, since the prepositional phrase would cease to exist as such, although each of the elements that compose it had its own meaning ("a" is not the same as "through", and also there is no "through" without "a" with the prepositional value that characterizes this locution).

Therefore, we should always write THROUGH and not * through, since it is a prepositional phrase composed of two words, nor * through, since this last form is a clear example of a misspelling when confusing "s" with "z".