Grammar: Preposition


Written by      First published July 1, 2009      Last modified October 18, 2011

A preposition is a word used with a noun or pronoun (ordinarily called the object of the preposition) to form a phrase. In other words, a preposition relates nouns or pronouns to other words in a sentence. Remember: objects of prepositions can never be the subject of a sentence.

The preposition introduces a prepositional phrase. Where something is. When somehting is. With the word “to” or “of”

About above across after against along around before behind below beneath beside between byeond despite down during except from inside into like near onto outside over past round since thrugh “according to” “along with” “because of” concserning “exce[t for” excepting “in addition to” “in psite of” “instead of” regarding as at by for in of off on out to throughout towrd under undernath unlike upon up to with within till up without




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