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WritingFixs List of Prepositions

English has many prepositions. This is an excellent list to keep handy in your
writers notebookor to blow up and post on the classroom wall.
One syllable prepositions:
at
on
from
through
up
with

by
near
down
out
of
like

in
to
off
past
for

Two syllable prepositions:

about
above
across
after
against
under

along
among
around
before
behind

below
beneath
beside
between
beyond

during
except
inside
outside
over

Compound prepositions:
into
onto

upon
within

without
throughout

Multi-word prepositions:
according to
prior to
in front of

out of
owing to
subsequent to

on account of
inside of
because of

aside from
by means of
as to

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