what is preposition?
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The words at, in, of, on and to are examples of prepositions. A word such as a noun, pronoun or gerund following a preposition is said to be the object of the preposition. There are many 'small words' in English such as up, down, and by which we call prepositions. A preposition must have an object (a noun or a pronoun), so it is always related to a noun: across the road, over the wall, up the hill, down the mountain.
Prepositions are very tricky. One has to be very careful in learning and using them. The most challenging thing about prepositions is their use in phrasal verbs.
People get very confused while using prepositions of time, place. The following examples will just give you an idea how challenging they can be:
Both ‘at’ and ‘in’ are prepositions of place and time. They are used in many ways to express time and place.
We use at mainly with:
- public places/buildings: at the airport, the bus stop, the Grand Hotel, the butcher's.
- addresses: at his sister's, 24 Cedar Avenue.
- nouns with zero article: at home, church, college, school, university
- events: at a concert, a dance, a dinner, a funeral, a meeting, a party, a wedding.
- exact time: at 10 o'clock; meal times: at lunch time; points of time: at night.
-festivals: at Christmas; age: at the age of 14; + 'time': at this/that time.
Example sentences:
He is at a party.
He was at a party.
My plane leaves at noon.
The movie starts at 6 p.m.
We use in mainly with:
- large areas: in Europe, Asia, the Antarctic, the Andes, the Sahara, Texas, the Pacific.
- towns/parts of towns: in Canterbury, Chelsea, Dallas, Manhattan, New York, Paris.
- outside areas: in the garden, the park, Hyde Park, the street, the old town, the desert.
- rooms: in the bathroom, his bedroom, the garage, the kitchen, the waiting room.
- nouns with zero article: in bed, chapel, church, hospital, prison.
-parts of the day: in the evening; months: in May; years: in 2050; seasons:
-in (the) spring; centuries: in the 20th century; periods: in Ramadan, in two years' time.
Example sentences:
He is in Delhi.
There is a wasp in the room.
He likes to read in the afternoon.
The days are long in August.
The book was published in 1999.
The flowers will bloom in spring.
These are just a few
of the many ways in which ‘at’ and ‘in’ are used.
Answer:
a preposition is a word often placed before a noun or a pronoun to show its relation with some other word in the sentence
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