Grammar prepositions

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Grammar prepositions

Prepositions: A preposition is a word that links a noun, pronoun, or gerund to other words. Prepositions can have a variety of meanings:

Direction- He's going to the shops.
Location- It's in the box.
Time- He left after the lesson had finished.
Possession- The Government of Italy.

● Prepositional Phrase: A prepositional phrase is the combination of a preposition and its object, a noun, or pronoun.

EG: He poured sauce over the pizza.

Note: Some prepositional phrases can function like single word prepositions. For example, next to, in front of, in order to, etc., are called compound prepositions.

EG: The girl is in front of the boy.

● Adverbial Prepositional Phrase: Prepositional phrases used as adverbs are called adverbial prepositional phrases. Adverbial prepositional phrases modify verbs and can be found almost anywhere in a sentence. An adverbial prepositional phrase will answer the questions how, when, where, how often, how much, how long or to what extent.

EG: The boy is behind the girl. (Answering the adverb question of “where”)

● Adjective Prepositional Phrase: An adjective phrase modifies a noun or a pronoun and answers the questions, which one, how many, how much, or what kind. Almost all adjective prepositional phrases directly follow the nouns or pronouns they modify.

EG: The purple hat with the red feather was for sale in the store. (Answering the adjective question of “which one”)

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Grammar prepositions

Prepositions:

Prepositions are the words that show relationships between words in a sentence. They tell how the noun/pronoun is related to another word in the sentence.

Prepositions are always in a group of words called a phrase. The noun/pronoun at the end of the phrase is called the object of the phrase.(what’s being talked about)

ex. on the floor, in the sun, to the store, around the block,

during the summer, since yesterday, without me, by Tim

Prepositions show:

Where something is (location)

ex. outside near over under inside upon above alongside in

Where something is going (direction)

ex. up down in on under through behind aboard around past

When something happens (time)

ex. during until since as within till past before after from

Relationships (between a noun/pronoun and another word in the sentence)

ex. with by except despite against among as off without

The most common one-word prepositions used are:

(There are other ones but this list will help you start using prepositions in your sentences.)

aboard below in since

about beneath inside through

above beside into throughout

across besides like till

after between near to

against beyond of toward

along but off under

alongside by on underneath

among despite onto until

around down out up

as during outside upon

at except over with

before for past within

behind from round without

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