I stood among them, but not of them.
He was in the world, but not of it.
Fifty have passed, myself among the rest.
He divided his property between his two sons.
He distributed the booty among his followers.
Please settle the account between yourselves.
They have settled the matter among themselves.
A man must sometimes choose between death and dishonor.
The relation between teacher and pupil is not what it used to be.
My time is taken up between teaching and writing.

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David Harrison Horton is a Beijing-based writer, artist, editor and curator. He is author of Maze Poems (Arteidolia) and chap Model Answers is forthcoming from CCCP Chapbooks. He edits the poetry zine SAGINAW. davidharrisonhorton.com

Hidesaburo Saito (1866-1929) was a Japanese linguist who did extensive research on the English language. The sentences from these works are taken from the model sentences appearing in his 1310-page tome Saito’s Monograph on Prepositions (Tokyo, The S. E. G. Press, 1932).