The guest speaker was delayed because of heavy traffic which is the compound preposition

The compound preposition in the sentence is "because of".

Explanation: Unlike a simple preposition, which consists in only one word, a compound preposition is made up of two or more words. The compound preposition in the sentence provided is "because of" because it is formed with two words: "because" and "of". Other examples of compound prepositions are "instead of", "according to", "in relation to" and "with respect to".

malvolio only loves olivia because he thinks if they get married to olivia he will have a noble title, people to serve him, and fine clothes to wear. also he thinks if they get married he will have many expensive things, and he thinks he will be able to order toby around. malvolio only wants to be noble and boss people around he dose not really love olivia. but viola love for duke orsino is real she really loves orsino.

i think he will fail because he tried to get her to love him and she said oh, you are sick of self-love, malvolio. there is no slander in an allowed fool. so i think she knows what malvolio is trying to do. she knows that he only wants to marry her because he wants to be noble and boss people around so that it why i think she said oh, you are sick of self-love, malvolio. there is no slander in an allowed fool because she new he was selfish.

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