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WHAT IS A PREPOSITION?
Preposition is a word or group of words (e g in, from, to, out, of, on behalf of) used before a noun or pronoun to show e g place, position, time or method (Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary).
THE CHARACTERISTICS OF PREPOSITION S:
- A part of speech in traditional grammar
- A structure word in modern grammar
- A small class of words
- No formal characteristics endings
- A word used to relate a noun or pronoun to some other part of the sentence
- Signal syntactic structures that functions as the other parts of the speech( noun, adjective, adverb)
- Range in meanings: from definite semantic notions as time, place, etc to purely structural meanings
- Signal that a noun or noun phrase or noun clause follows it
- A word that combines with a noun or pronoun to form a phrase
ENGLISH PREPOSITIONS LIST
There are about 150 prepositions in English. Yet this is a very small number when you think of the thousands of other words (noun, verb etc). Here is a short list of 70 of the more common one-word prepositions. Many of these prepositions have more than one meaning. Here is a list of prepositions:
List of Prepositions
Aboard,About,Above, Across,After, Against,Along, Amid, Among, Anti, Around as ,At, Before ,Behind, Below, Beneath, Beside, Besides, Between, Beyond, But ,By ,Concerning, Considering ,Despite, Down, During, Except, Excepting, Excluding, Following, For, From, In, Inside, Into, Like ,Minus, Near, Of, Off ,On ,Onto,Opposite,Outside, Over, Past, Per, Plus, Regarding ,Round, Save, Since,Than,Through,To, Toward,Towards ,Under ,Underneath, Unlike,Until,Up,Upon,Versus, Via,With,Within, Without .
PREPOSITIONS OF PLACE: AT, IN, ON
In general, we use at for a point, in for an enclosed space, and on for a surface.
At( POINT ):at the corner, at the bus stop, at the door, at the entrance etc
In (ENCLOSED SPACE): in the garden, in London,in a box, in my wallet etc On (SURFACE) : on the wall, on the door, on the carpet etc
PREPOSITION OF TIME: AT, IN, ON
In telling the time, we use at for a precise time; in for months, years, centuries and long periods; and on for days and dates.
At ( PRECISE TIME): at 3 o'clock, at noon, at dinnertime, at the moment etc
In (MOUNTHS, YEARS, and LONG PERIODS) :in May, in 1990, in the next century etc
On (DAYS and DATES) : on tuesday, on Lebaran Day, on my birthday, etc

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