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Hello! This is Emma from mmmEnglish, back with another lesson on the mmmEnglish YouTube channel.
Now a few weeks ago I made a video lesson using articles in English. If you missed it, you can watch it up here. But in that video, I said that articles are one of the biggest problems for English students because they are the cause of so many grammar mistakes!
And it's true! As a University English teacher, I saw these mistakes all the time!
But coming very close behind mistakes with articles are mistakes with prepositions. Now, prepositions are words like these:
In
On
At
By
With
For
Over
Under
Of
To
There are many of them in English and like articles, prepositions are difficult to understand. Sometimes the reasons why you should choose one over another, it's not really obvious. And sometimes there are exceptions and differences depending on who you actually talk to – whether they speak American English or British English.
So what's the secret to these prepositions?
How can you possibly know when and how to use them properly?
Well, the answer might not be one that you like. There's no simple rule, there's no one answer.
Prepositions need to be learnt in context with the other words that they're used with. Trying to understand why we say “in the car” and “on the bus” will only end in tears and frustrations!