WRITE THE MEANINGS OF THE FOLLOWING AND AND 5 EXAMPLES OF EACH.
Prepositions:
1. Simple Prepositions
at, to, till, by, on, in, from, over,under, with, down, of, near, of, off, up, out,
2. Compound Prepositions
about, across, above, along, below, before, behind, beneath, beside, between, beyond, inside, outside, underneath, within, without, amid, among, around, into, upon,
3. Phrasal Prepositions
according to, away from, because of, by dint of, by means of, by way of, for the sake of, in accordance with, in addition to, on behalf, in case of, in comparison to, in consequence of, in course of, in favour of, in front of, in lieu of, in order to, in place of, with reference to, further, in this regard, in/with regard to, in spite of, on account of, owing to, in stead of, in the event of, etc,.
The Preposition is a word primarily placed before a noun to tell in what relation the noun stands to something else in the sentence. For instance, in the sentence, "The book is on the table" the preposition, "on" shows the relation of the table to the remaining part of the sentence, "The book is.." To have command over the usage of prepositions, we need to do a lot of practice and widely read English with a special concentration on the usage of them.
The Preposition is a word primarily placed before a noun to tell in what relation the noun stands to something else in the sentence. For instance, in the sentence, "The book is on the table" the preposition, "on" shows the relation of the table to the remaining part of the sentence, "The book is.." To have command over the usage of prepositions, we need to do a lot of practice and widely read English with a special concentration on the usage of them.
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