Prepositions

Prepositions

1. What are prepositions?

   • Prepositions describe a relationship between other words in a sentence.
     • They are locators in place.
     • They can also be phrases.
   • Example: Tom rides his bike through the forest, under the bridge, and beside the homes.
     • Prepositions: through, under, and beside

2. Prepositions of Time

   • Most common ones include in, at, on, and since.
   • You use in for nonspecific times.
     • The boy rode his bike in the morning.
   • You use at for specific times.
     • The bus leaves at 4:15.
   • You use on for specific days and dates.
     • My birth day is on August 16th.
   • You use since for a specific date or time
     • The boys were racing with their cars since 3:00.

3. Prepositions of Place

   • One of the most used prepositions.
   • You use in for names of land or other areas.
     • I live in Charlotte, NC.
   • You can use at for specific address.
     • The affluent man's house is at 98765 Royal Drive.
   • You mostly use on, under, behind, beside, across, or over to show where something is.
     • The professor sat on the desk while his students piled around him for an experiment.

4. Prepositions of Movement

   • You use to for expressing movement.
     • Hurry! We have to go to the game!
     • Toward and towards are helpful prepositions to show movement.
       • The invincible pugilist moved towards his opponent.
   • When you are using upstairs, downstairs, downtown, inside, or outside you don't use prepositions

5. Most of the time, you use prepositions that are unnecessary in speech. You shouldn't use these prepositions in formal or academic speech.

   • Timmy met up with the coach in the hallway.
   • Where did they go to?
   • Where is your college at?