Prepositions - By Arundathie Abeysinghe
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Transcript of Prepositions - By Arundathie Abeysinghe
By Arundathie AbeysingheLecturer/Trainer
Sri Lankan Aviation College & Presidential Secretariat
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Short words (on, in, to) Usually stand in front of nouns
(sometimes also in front of gerund verbs) Prepositions of Time and Place (Position
and Direction)
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for over a certain period of time (past till
now) for 2 years ago a certain time in the past 2 years ago before earlier than a certain point of time before 2004
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to telling the time ten to six (5:50) to / till / until marking the beginning and end of a period of
time from Sunday to/till Monday till / until how long something is going to last He is on holiday until next month.
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by at the latest up to a certain time She will be back by 9 o’clock. By 10 o'clock, I had read two chapter of
the book.
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in building, country, street, town, village news paper, book, magazine plane, car, , train, taxi picture, world e.g.: in the house, in Sydney in the news paper in the plane in the world
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at ■meaning next to, by an object ■for table ■for events ■place where you are to do something
typical (watch a film, study, work) ■at the door, at the station ■at the table ■at a concert, at the party ■at the cinema, at school, at work
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on attached a floor in a house public transport television, radio a place with a river a surface a certain side (left, right)
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by, next to, beside left or right of somebody or something Jane is standing by / next to / beside the
car. under ■on the ground, lower than (or covered by)
something else ■the bag is under the table
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below lower than something else but above ground the fish are below the surface over covered by something else meaning more than getting to the other side (also across) overcoming an obstacle put a jacket over your shirt over 16 years of age walk over the bridge climb over the wall
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above higher than something else, but not directly
over it a path above the lake across getting to the other side (also over) getting to the other side walk across the bridge swim across the lake
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through something with limits on top, bottom and
the sides e.g. drive through the tunnel to movement - person or building movement to a place/country e.g. go to the cinema/restaurant/museum go to Sydney / New Zealand
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into enter a room / a building go into the kitchen / into the house towards movement - in the direction of something
(yet, not directly to it) go several steps towards the office
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onto movement to the top of something jump onto the table from in the sense of where from a flower from the garden
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in entering a car / Taxi get in the car by car, by bus
by rise or fall of something travelling (other than walking or horseriding) prices have risen by 10 percent by car, by bus
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at age she learned French at 15 about for topics - what about They were talking about her
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off leaving a public transport e.g. get off the train out of leaving a car / taxi get out of the car by rise or fall of something prices have risen by 50 percent
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by ■who made it ■a book by Mark Twain on ■walking or riding on horseback ■entering a public transport vehicle ■on foot, on horseback ■get on the bus
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Thank you!
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