How do you mark a sentence to identify a preposition

Read the passage. and thus they fought all the long day, and never stinted till the noble knights were laid to the cold earth. and ever they fought still till it was near night, and by then was there a hundred thousand laid dead upon the down. in the passage from morte d’arthur by sir thomas malory, what are the bolded words an example of?

What is the most likely reason schlosser uses a direct quotation in this example excerpt from fast food nation

Which type of pronoun clearly shows what is being referred to a specific person place or thing