PREPOSITION

AAMIR HUSSAIN
 PREPOSITION
• Pre (before) Position (place)
• A word that is used before a noun and shows its
relation with another word of the sentence.
He goes to college by bus.
Ali sits besides me in class.(pronoun)
He told the joke without laughing. (Gerund)
 Use of preposition
Location Directions Time Spatial
IN IN IN AROUND
ON INTO ON ALONG
AT ON AT AMONG
ONTO WITHIN WITHIN
TO DURING ACROSS
TOWARDS FROM NEAR BY
BY BEFORE
FOR\SINCE ABOVE
DURING THROUGH
 Preposition of Location
• Surface (on) tells us that the following noun is located on a surface. Use
on when one thing is attached or touching something.
• Standing on the road
• On the table
• On the floor
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• Enclosed area (IN) tells us the noun is in an enclosed space. Basically,
when something is inside something.
• In a box
• In a room
• In a country
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• Point (At) tells us that the following noun is located at a specific point or
location. It shows an exact position.
• She is waiting at the entrance.
• At the railway station.
• At the school.
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• She is at the library. The emphasis is on her location and the type of place
she has gone to.
• She is in the library. The emphasis is on the type of building she is in.
• At school in library
• At Karachi in Pakistan
 Preposition of direction
• Movement to a surface (onto on)
• Onto (dynamic preposition ) The cat jumped onto the sofa.
• The cat lay on the sofa.
• Onto the box|chair
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• Movement towards an enclosed area (in into)
• Nadia put the cake into the oven.
• The cake was in the oven.
• He jumped into the river. (Movement)
• He is in the water.
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• Movement to a destination (To\Towards)
• “To” destination
• “Towards” direction of the movement
• When I saw Amar, he was walking toward his office.
• They will drive to Lahore.
• The ball is going toward the box.
 Preposition of time
• Point time (in on at) fix time
• At night, at 7 o clock, at 6am, at Charismas, at the weekend
• On days of the week, dates, particular days, on my birthday ,on Charismas
day
• In parts of the day, months, season, years, decades, century
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• Extended time (During by from to for since)
• During the summer vacations.
• Since for a particular time in past until a later time, or until now. It was the
bands first live performance since may 1990.
• For used to show an amount of time. He lived in Islamabad for three
years.
• From start time , to end time. We are open from 8 am to 7pm everyday.
• By not later than or before. I will have it done by tomorrow.
 Preposition of Spatial relation
• Limits ( around along within)
• Around; He is moving around the tree.
• Along; He is walking along the road.
• Within; He is walking within the circle.
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• Relative position
• Above ; (near) to head
• Over; (far) clouds over the plane
• Under
• Between
• Out of
• In inside
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• Relative movement
• Against ;
• Out of;
• Through;
• Across;
 IDIOMS
• Called for
• Cast down
• Come by
• Done up
• Cut off
• Kept in
• Kept up
• Stand over