Use Of Prepositions
A
preposition describes a relationship between other words in a sentence. In
itself, a word like "in" or "after" is rather meaningless
and hard to define in mere words. For instance, when you do try to define a
preposition like "in" or "between" or "on," you
invariably use your hands to show how something is situated in relationship to
something else. Prepositions are nearly always combined with other words in
structures called prepositional phrases. Prepositional phrases can be made
up of a million different words, but they tend to be built the same: a
preposition followed by a determiner and an adjective or two,
followed by a pronoun or noun (called the object of the preposition).
This whole phrase, in turn, takes on a modifying role, acting as
an adjective or an adverb, locating something in time and space,
modifying a noun, or telling when or where or under what conditions something
happened.
Example.
Prepositions Of Time : at, on, and in
We use at to designate specific times.
Prepositions Of Time : at, on, and in
We use at to designate specific times.
The train is due at 12:15 p.m.
We use on to designate days and dates.
My brother is coming on Monday.
We're having a party on the Fourth of July.
We use in for nonspecific times during a day, a month, a
reason, or a year.
She like to jog in the morning.
It's too cold in winter to run outside.
Prepositions of Place : at, on, and in.
We use at for specific address.
Grammar English live at 55 Boretz Road in Durham.
We use on to designate name of streets, avenues, etc.
Her house is on Boretz Road.
And we use in for the names of land-areas (towns, countries,
states,countries, and continents).
She live in Durham.
Durham is in Windham Country.
Windham Country is in Connecticut.
Common Combination and Preposition.
Most
phrasal verb is composed of two words: verb + particle. But some are made up of
three words, namely: particle + verb + preposition, which is known as
phrasal-prepositional verb. So phrasal-prepositional multi-word verb is a verb
which consists of a verb, particle and preposition.
Between particle (adverb that looks like a preposition) and
phrasal preposition on-prepositional verb inseparable (inseparated) and the
object is always to follow the multi-word verb is due to end in the form of a
preposition (preposition always has an object). Because it is always followed
by an object, all phrasal-prepositional verb is transitive.
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nouns
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preposition
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examples
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age, attempt, point
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at
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18 is the age at which you are
allowed to vote.
Fisk is making his third attempt at the
world record.
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need, reason, responsibility
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for
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What’s the reason for your
unhappiness?
Nobody seems to have responsibility
for the budget.
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changes, differences, increase
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in
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Changes in society have meant that
young people leave home earlier.
There’s been a steady increase in the
value of the euro.
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inquiry, investigation, research
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into
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The police inquiry into the
theft continues.
She did some research into the
causes of back pain.
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cause, example, way
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of
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This is an example of international
collaboration.
We need to find another way of doing
things.
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approach, reaction, response
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to
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My reaction to it all was to try
to forget it.
Her response to the criticism
was very strong.
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source :
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/prepositions.htm
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