mar in front of| tie sat infront of me during the exam, to show something is further forward than There are a lots of trees in front of our house. | The young child hid behind the curtains in the living room. | 1g is further back than There's a car park behind the sports centre, | | ‘opposite, across, over, under, underneath There's a park next to my house and a swimming pool opposite. to show something is on the other side of something | The bank is across the road. else (with across, over and under we must state the | Sally's house is over the river. something else) | Our dog hides under the bed when there's a thunderstorm. LL af | There were toys ontop ofthe bed and underneath. _ up, down The biscuits are up on the top shelf to show something isin a high or low place Dad is down the garden [to show something is ina later or an earlier position | The list is in alphabetical order, so your name is before | 1 ] after, before ‘What does PhD after so mean? — 1. ALERT! ‘= We say on a chair and on a sofa, but in an armchair. ‘© We say at or on the comer of a street, but in the corner of a room. ‘+ We can use different prepositions depending on the meaning. 1 meet you at the station. (= inside or outside) 1 meet you in the station. (= inside) ‘© We usually say nthe sea, but we say at sea in the phrase lost at sea. + Over and under are often used with ages, prices, speeds, quantities, ete to mean ‘more than’ or fewer/less than’, He's over one hundred years old! You can't find boots like these for under £250. ‘She was driving at over 90 mph when she was stopped by the police. PREPOSITIONS OF MOVEMENT down, off, onito), up (Go down this corridor and the bathroom is on your right. to show the idea of movement in an up or down The pen rolled off the table. | direction Get onto the bus and find a seat quickly. He ran up the stairs two at a tit across, along, into, out of, over, past, through The ball boy ran across the tennis court. to show the idea of movement from one side or end My parents and I enjoyed a cruise along the River Nile. (of something to the other, or movement following Put your clothes into this red suitcase the line of something (eg a river) Jump out of the car and post this letter for me. ‘We travelled over the fields in a hot-air balloon I give Rachel a lft to work because I drive past her house on my way. We took a short cut through the forest. to, towards Do you walk to school with Mary? {to show movement in the direction of someone or Kim was driving fowards Leeds when her car broke down something (Fight) up to Helen ran up to Lionel Messi and asked for a selfie with him. to show that we reach the person or thing She came right up to the door, but didn't knock on it. {a}round | drove around the square three or four times before | found {tb show movement in a circular direction somewhere to park. ‘We walked around town, looking for somewhere to eat, up (to), down (to) Daniel drove up to Manchester to visit his sister. to show movement ina northerly or southerly Well travel down on Saturday because our ferry eaves for France direction early on Sunday morning UNIT 2 23