Question

2. What are prepositions? Explain with the help of an example.​

Answer 1

Answer:

Look at the word carefully. We notice that it

can be divided into two parts :

Pre - Position

The two separate parts indicate Before and a Place respectively.

Basically,

A preposition is a word which is used after nouns or pronouns describing a relationship between the noun or pronoun and other words in the sentence.

They describe, for example:

the position /the place, the time, the direction, the manner.

Examples of Prepositions:

• Please put the phone on the table. (place)

• Lectures will begin on Monday. (time)

• The man ran towards the train. (direction)

• I travel by bus. (manner)

Here are some prepositions: [examples]

in, into, inside, besides, for, from, towards, at, by, on, onto, above, below, under, underneath, beneath, down, between, among, amongst, etc.

Answer 2

$➤preposition$

➠A preposition is a word which shows the relationship of a noun or a pronoun with another word in a sentence.

• ⇒He looked through the window.

• ⇒I bought it for rupees ten.

• ⇒We were walking along the road.

• ⇒The cat jumped off the chair.

• ⇒They reached home at ten.

➠The words of, at, through, along, for, on, off, behind, down, under etc are prepositions.

$<u>➤</u><u>kinds</u> \: <u>of</u> \: <u>prepositions</u>$

⇨Simple prepositions.

⇨Compound prepositions.

⇨Phrase prepositions.

➤NOW:-

⇰SIMPLE PREPOSITIONS:-

In, on, at, to, from, with, by etc.

⇰COMPOUND PREPOSITIONS:-

About, across, among, between, beside etc.

⇰PHRASE PREPOSITIONS:-

According to, on amount of, because of, in front of etc.