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Prepositions

Prepositions help explain the relationship between things. This is important since English lacks some of the cases used in other languages like Russian.

As their name implies, prepositions come before... and they must be followed by a noun (for example, "Children are found around the world.") In a question, in which usual sentence structure is inverted, a preposition could come at the end if the interrogative pronoun is its object.

Prepositions can include prepositions of time, space, and movement.

Get used to using prepositions as a way of conveying meaning.

I am off to New York ......... I am going to New York.
I am in New York ......... I am now in New York.

Many verbs and adjectives are used with certain prepositions, and not others. For example: Protest against.

Just like verbs, prepositions (like beTWEEN) are mostly stressed on the second syllable.

While traditional grammar rules once frowned upon ending questions with prepositions (the so-called terminal preposition), this rule has largely fallen out of favor, especially in everyday speech. That said, ending a statement with a preposition sounds odd. That is because, as previously mentioned, prepositions usually go before a noun, not afterwards.

See Prepositional Phrases.

EXERCISES

BASIC PREPOSITIONS: View on Google Documents.

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