English Prepositions with uses and examples

Prepositions

Prepositions tell us where something is or the direction in which something is moving. A preposition should always have an object. Most people get confused while studying prepositions because a preposition can be used in many different ways.

In simple words you can say that prepositions define the relationship between the different parts of speech.

About	Through	Below	For	Aboard
Above	Throughout	Beneath	From	Anti
Across	To	Beside	In	Considering
After	Toward	Besides	Into	Despite
Against	Under	Between	Like	Excepting
Along	Underneath	Beyond	Of	Excluding
Amid	Until	But	Off	Following
Among	Up	By	On	Onto
Around	Upon	Concerning	Over	Opposite
At	With	Down	Past	Minus
Before	Within	During	Since	Near
Behind	Without	except	Than	Per
Regarding	Round	Save	Through	Plus
Towards	Unlike	Versus	Via	Toward

 

Prepositions with verbs

Account for	Argue with	Call on	Convince on	Laugh at
Agree on	Ask for	Care for	Decide on	Listen for
Agree with	Believe in	Compliment	Depend on	Listen to
Apologize to	Belong to	Come from	Get rid of	Listen at
Apologize for	Blame on	Consent to	Hear about	Look at
Approve of	Borrow from	Consist of	Insist on	Look for
Look forward to	Plan on	Provide with	Recover from	Remind of
Search for	Talk about	Think about	Wait for	Wait with

 

 

Prepositions with adjectives

According to	Angry about	Composed of	Dependent on
Accustomed to	Capable of	Happy with	Different from
Disappointed from	Fond of	Jealous of	Due to
In accordance with	Angry at	Angry with	Interested in

 

 

Prepositions can be classified in time, place, about, and manner

Time

At- Use at to talk about time of day

In-Use in to talk about months, years and seasons

On-Use on to talk about days and dates

About- Use about to give an estimation

By- Use by to give an approximate time

From-Use from to give a range

Past-Use past to signify something which has already happened

During-Use during to signify a time period

Since-Use since to signify a specific point in time

Ago- Use since to tell about a time period

Until-Use until to talk about a specific day

 

Place

Around- Use around to talk about a place which is near

Down-Use down to talk about a place which is

From- Use from to talk about the origin

Of- Use of to tell the relation to a place

Through- Use through to talk about the means

To- Use to talk about a place where someone would go

At- Use at to tell about a place where you are sitting

In- Use in to tell about a place which surrounds you

Inside- Use inside to tell you about something in the inner part

On- Use on to signify something which is completely touching an object

Up- Use up to talk about something ahead

With-Use with to talk about something which is near

By- Use by to show closeness

Beside- Use beside to talk to about a place just on the side

Near- Use near to talk about a place which is close

Against- Use against to talk about a place

Under- Use under to talk about something which is below

Underneath- Use underneath to talk about something below the ground

Across- Use across when there is something between two thing

Through-Use through to signify something by which

On- Use on to tell about a thing which you are touching

After- Use after to talk about a place following the other one

Means

By- Use by to signify through which something happened

From- Use from to talk the cause

In- Use in to talk about something which results in something else

On- Use on to talk about dependence

With- Use with to talk about something which facilitates another thing

 

Manner

By- Use by to talk about the way a certain thing is done

In- Use in to talk about how a certain thing is done

Like- Use like to signify similarity

With- Use with to tell by which a certain thing is done

 

State or condition

At- Use at to describe what that person is doing

In- Use in to describe the mood

By- Use by to describe condition

On- Use on to describe what a person is doing

As- Use as to tell about how a thing is perceived



2 Responsesto “English Prepositions with uses and examples”

1. ozy says:

   January 13, 2014 at 11:10 pm

   A very useful coverage, would be great to see examples in each, though I guess that would take too long to bear..

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