Prepositions of place and movement | Prepositions of Place | Prepositions of Time and Date

  PREPOSITIOINS

What is Prepositions ?

Prepositions:-

A Preposition introduces the noun or pronoun in a sentence. It establishes a relationship between the

object and the rest of the sentence. It can never stand alone but it can have more than one object .

The object of a Preposition is a Noun or Pronoun.

Examples:-

⦁ The flowers are in the vase .

⦁ The book is under the desk.

⦁ She wrote to Manasi last summer.

⦁ The children climbed the mountain without fear.

⦁ There was rejoicing throughout the land when the king was defeated.

⦁ The spider crawled slowly along the wall.

⦁ The dog is hiding under the stairs because he knows he will be punished for chewing up a new pair of shoes.

The following is a list of Prepositions for your reference:-

above, before, across, behind, after, below, around,

beneath, on, from, at, between, in, Inside, into, like, near, up,

during, Except, over, past, within, with, since, through, till, beside,

toward, until, down, of, Out, outside, under, upon.

 Prepositions of place and movement - In/ At / To:-

 These prepositions are used to express movement and position in a place/ location.

Examples:-

• Stay in India 
• Learn at home
•  Work in Mumbai

Use At with static (non-moving) verbs and place.

Examples:-

• At the cinema
•  At work
• At Office

Use To with verbs of movement such as go, come, drive, and so on.

Examples:-

• Go to work
• Drive to Shimla
•  Go to school

 Prepositions of Place  - In At/ On

 These Prepositions are used to express the position of objects.

 Use In with spaces.

Examples:-

• In a room 
• In a garden
• In a park

In is used with bodies of water.

Examples:-

• In the water
• In the sea 
• In the river

In is also used with lines.

Examples:-

• In a row
• In a line
• In a queue

Use At with places.

Examples:-

• At the bus stop
• At the door 
• At the cinema
• At the end of the street

At is used with place/ positions on a page.

 Examples:-

• At the top of the page
•  At the bottom of the page

At is also used with group of people .

Examples:-

• At the back of the class 
• At the front of the class

Use On with surfaces.

Examples:-

• On the ceiling
• On the wall
• On the floor
• On the table

On is used with small islands.

Example:-

•  I stayed Маuі

On is used with directions.

Examples:-

•  On the left
• On the right

Prepositions of Time and Date-In/ At/ On 

These prepositions are used to express the occurrence of some event . In is used with month, vents and periods of time.

Examples:-

• In August
• In 2002
•  In the eighties

Use In with a period of time in the future.

Examples:-

• In a few weeks
• In a couple of days

At is used with precise time.

Examples:-

• At six o'clock
• Af 10.30 am

On is used with days of the week.

 Examples:-

• On Monday
• On Fridays

Use On with specific calendar days.

Examples:-

• On Diwali day
•  On October 22nd

Note: You can say "in" the morning, 'in' the afternoon or 'in' the evening, but it is always 'at' night.

Parts of speech (Nouns, Pronouns, Adjectives, Verbs, Adverbs )