PREPOSITION

Prepositions are short words (on, in, to) that usually

stand in front of nouns (sometimes also in front of
gerund verbs).

Prepositions – Place (Position and Other important

Prepositions – Time Prepositions
Direction)

•On •In •From

•At •of
•in
•on •by
•at
•since •by, next to, beside •on
•for •under
•in
•below
•ago •over •off
•before •above
•out of
•to •across
•past •through
•by
•to
•to / till / until
•into •at
•till / until •towards
•by •onto •about
•from
Prepositions of Time
• The train is due at 12:15 p.m.
• My brother is coming on Monday.
She likes to jog in the morning.
• He held his breath for seven minutes.
• She's been sitting in the waiting room since two-thirty.

Prepositions of Place
• Grammar English lives at 55 Boretz Road in Durham.
• Her house is on Boretz Road.
• She lives in Durham.

Other important Prepositions

• a present from Jane.
• a page of the book.
• the picture of a palace.
• she learned Russian at 45.
• we were talking about you.