What are the Different Types of Prepositions?

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What are prepositions

Prepositions are words that tell us where something is or how something is done, they are words that show the relationship between two things.

Where?

Where something is, in relation to something else.

 

Examples:

The cat is on the table.

The car drove past me.

The dog jumped in the pool.

 

How?

How something is done.

 

Examples:

I gave the letter to my brother.

I stood in for my sick brother.

 

Time or Location?

Where something happens or at what time it happens

 

Examples:

I saw you at the Pyramids.

I will meet you at 8 p.m. tomorrow.


Click the following link if you would like to learn more about how to use prepositions in English:      

Mastering the Tricky Prepositions in English: Part 1 – to and for (Basic)


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