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Lots of preposition exercises - practice using prepositions of time, place, after adjectives, verbs or nouns.
- Preposition Collocations Exercise 1
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- Time Prepositions Exercise 1
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- Preposition Collocations Exercise 1
Prepositions are words that show relationships between other nearby words. Lots of prepositions tell us where or when something is in relation to something else. Common prepositions are above, about, below, for, from, in, inside, into, of, to, until, and with.
Ian lives a small house. He has been living here 2005. his house, there is a hotel. It was built three years Ian’s uncle, who is an architect. the hotel there is a bus stop. The people staying the hotel can get on the bus here to go the city centre. When they come back, they can get off the bus the other side the street.
We commonly use prepositions to show a relationship in space or time or a logical relationship between two or more people, places or things. Prepositions are most commonly followed by a noun phrase or pronoun (underlined): The last time I saw him he was walking down the road. I’ll meet you in the cafe opposite the cinema.
Prepositions PREP 9 - ABOUT, OVER, ON, ABOVE, ONTO, UP Intermediate Prepositions PREP 8 - IN - OUT OF - UNDER - WITH - TO Intermediate Prepositions PREP 7 - AT, BY, FOR, IN Elementary
Example: I am going to Canada. Alex threw a stone into the pond. The present is inside the box. They have gone out of the town. There are a few interesting linguistic facts about prepositions. First, they are a closed class of words which means no new preposition gets added to the language. We use a fixed set of prepositions.
A preposition is a word used to link nouns, pronouns, or phrases to other words within a sentence. They act to connect the people, objects, time and locations of a sentence. Prepositions are usually short words, and they are normally placed directly in front of nouns.
