Prepositions
  1. What is a Preposition?
    Prepositions are used before nouns to give additional information in a sentence. Usually, prepositions are used to show where something is located or when something happened.

    A preposition links nouns, pronouns and phrases to other words in a sentence. The word or phrase that the preposition introduces is called the object of the preposition. Answer
  2. How many prepositions are there in English language? Answer
  3. How many categories of prepositions are there? Answer
  4. What are the various categories of prepositions in English language? Answer
  5. Do you know of any other category of prepositions in English language? Answer
  6. What are the rules for using prepositions in English language? Answer
  7. How do you use various prepositions in English language sentences? Answer
  8. Time prepositions: What are various examples? Answer
  9. How do you use time prepositions in simple questions in English language? Answer
  10. What sequences of prepositions must you know for simple declarative and simple questions? Answer
  11. What is the sequence of prepositions in a question if there are many prepositional phrases? Answer
  12. Where will you be working on books at 1 PM on October 22, 2021, in Chicago, Illinois? Preposition of time: at/on sequence. Answer
  13. How do you use time prepositions in complex declarative sentences in English language? Answer
  14. How do you use time prepositions in compound complex declarative sentences in English language? Answer
  15. How do you use time prepositions in simple declarative sentences in English language? Answer
  16. What are various examples of prepositions? Answer
  17. What does a prepositional phrase do in a sentence? Answer
  18. Can you end a sentence with a preposition? Answer
  19. What is a prepositional phrase? Answer
  20. Why is there need to conduct research on prepositions in English language? Answer
  21. What is expected of your prepositions research in English language? Answer
  22. How many place prepositions are there? Answer
  23. Place preposition: What are various examples? Answer
  24. What is a place preposition? Answer
  25. How do you use place prepositions in a simple declarative sentence? Answer
  26. Why must you know regional variations when using prepositions? Answer
  27. What are the regional variations in the use of prepositions in English language? Answer
  28. How did existing English language newspaper editors edit texts on or before April 8, 2021? Answer
  29. Do prepositions have inflections? Answer
  30. Do prepositions have meaning in English? Answer
  31. What are various examples? Answer
  32. How many prepositions are there in English language? Answer
  33. How many categories of prepositions are there? Answer
  34. What are the various categories of prepositions in English language? Answer
  35. Do you know of any other category of prepositions in English language? Answer
  36. What are the rules for using prepositions in English language? Answer
  37. How do you use various prepositions in English language sentences? Answer
  38. What are the rules for using prepositions? Answer
  39. How do you use time prepositions in simple questions in English language? Answer
  40. What sequences of prepositions must you know for simple declarative and simple questions? Answer
  41. What is the sequence of prepositions in a question if there are many prepositional phrases? Answer
  42. Where will you be working on books at 1 PM on October 22, 2021, in Chicago, Illinois?
    Preposition of time: at/on sequence. Answer
  43. How do you use time prepositions in complex declarative sentences in English language? Answer
  44. How do you use time prepositions in compound complex declarative sentences in English language? Answer
  45. How do you use time prepositions in simple declarative sentences in English language? Answer
  46. On: What is it? Answer
  47. What are the types? Answer
  48. Are inflections (prefix, suffix, plural, possessive) applicable to this word? Answer
  49. What other classes of words should you know with this word? Answer
  50. What is another word for this word? Answer
  51. What is the technique for remembering the use of this word in English language? Answer
  52. How do you use this word to make declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory sentences? Answer
  53. Where is the prepositional phrase placed in a simple declarative sentence in English language? Answer
  54. What are various example sentences? Answer
How many prepositions are there in English language?
At least 150.

How many categories of prepositions are there?
At least 13.

What are the various categories of prepositions in English language?
1. Agency preposition: by, with
2. Connection preposition: of, to, with
3. Direction or movement preposition: to, from, over, under, along, around, across, through, into, out of, toward(s), away from, onto, off, up, down
4. Instrument or device preposition: by, with, on
5. Origin preposition: from, of
6. Place preposition: at, in, on, by/near/close to, next to/beside, between, behind, in front of, above/over, below/under Here are further guidelines.
7. Reason or purpose preposition: for, through, because of, on account of, from
8. Time preposition: at, in, on, for, during, since, by, until, before, after, to, past Here are further guidelines.
9. Prepositions after verbs and before nouns.
10. Prepositions after adjectives, nouns, and verbs.
11. Phrasal prepositions. The college is in front of my house.
12. Stranded prepositions. Stranded prepositions are optional.
13. Prepositions or conjunctions. Prepositions or adverbs. Prepositions and abstract meanings. Prepositions and adjectives. Prepositions and nouns. Prepositions and verbs.

Do you know of any other category of prepositions in English language?

What are the rules for using prepositions in English language?
A preposition must be followed by a noun or a pronoun.
Match the preposition with a noun or pronoun. Match the prepositional phrase with the rest of the simple declarative sentence before the prepositional phrase.
For example: Subject + verb + object + prepositional phrase
Certain prepositions must follow certain words.
Verb + preposition must be practiced.
Match correct prepositions with correct words.
You must also know stranded prepositions.

How do you use various prepositions in English language sentences?
What are the rules for using prepositions?
We will consider the use of prepositions in various 14 types of sentences.

Time prepositions: What are various examples?
At, in, on, for, during, since, by, until, before, after, to, and past are time prepositions.

How do you use time prepositions in simple questions in English language?
Who will be investigating this case after lunch? Preposition of Time
Who will be investigating this case before dinner? Preposition of Time
Who will be investigating this case at 5 PM? Preposition of Time
Who will be investigating this case during class? Preposition of Time
Who will be investigating this case in 2021? Preposition of Time
Who will be investigating this case on June 30, 2021? Preposition of Time
Who will be investigating this case on February 8, 2021? Preposition of Time
Who will be investigating this case by 6 o’clock tomorrow morning? Preposition of Time
Who will be investigating this case until solutions and remedies are found? Preposition of Time
Who will be investigating this case at 10 minutes to 5 today?
Who will be investigating this case at no later than a quarter past five today?
Who has been investigating this case for the last 21 years? Preposition of Time
Who has been investigating this case since yesterday? Preposition of Time
Who has been investigating this case since 2005? Preposition of Time

What sequences of prepositions must you know for simple declarative and simple questions?
What is the sequence of prepositions in a question if there are many prepositional phrases?
Where will you be working on books at 1 PM on October 22, 2021, in Chicago, Illinois? Preposition of time: at/on sequence.

How do you use time prepositions in complex declarative sentences in English language?
On April 9, 2021, I will be investigating this case.

How do you use time prepositions in compound complex declarative sentences in English language?
At 1:00 PM, on April 8, 2021, I was investigating this case, and they were earning a salary in Chicago, Illinois, and other locations.
At and on are time prepositions in this sentence.
In is a place preposition in this sentence.

How do you use time prepositions in simple declarative sentences in English language?
I will be investigating this case after lunch. Preposition of Time
I will be investigating this case before dinner. Preposition of Time
I will be investigating this case at 5 PM. Preposition of Time
I will be investigating this case during class. Preposition of Time
I will be investigating this case in 2021. Preposition of Time
I will be investigating this case on June 30, 2021. Preposition of Time
I will be investigating this case on February 8, 2021. Preposition of Time
I will be investigating this case by 6 o’clock tomorrow morning. Preposition of Time
I will be investigating this case until solutions and remedies are found. Preposition of Time
I will be investigating this case at 10 minutes to 5 today.
I will be investigating this case no later than a quarter past five today.
I have been investigating this case for the last 21 years. Preposition of Time
I have been investigating this case since yesterday. Preposition of Time
I have been investigating this case since 2005. Preposition of Time

What is a Preposition?
First, a quick recap of the basics:
A preposition is a word such as with, by, on, in, at, to, or about.
Prepositions are a class of word used to express the relationship between the elements of a sentence or clause.
A preposition connects a verb, noun, or adjective to a noun or pronoun and is typically, but not always, found before the noun or pronoun in a sentence or clause.

A preposition is a word such as after, in, to, on, and with. Prepositions are usually used in front of nouns or pronouns and they show the relationship between the noun or pronoun and other words in a sentence.

Prepositions are words that show the relationship between a noun or a pronoun and some other word in the sentence.

Prepositions are words that help link either the noun, or the pronoun with another word in the sentence in order to describe their relationship. A preposition is a word, which is used to indicate different relations, such as place, time, reason and purpose, method, direction and motion, manner, and possession. It is usually placed before a noun, or pronoun. The most common examples of prepositions in grammar are on, in, at, to, with, up, etc.

What are various examples of prepositions?
One-word Prepositions
  1. Aboard
  2. About
  3. Above
  4. Across
  5. After (also Conj.)
  6. Against
  7. Along
  8. Alongside
  9. Amid Amidst (poetic)
  10. Among/Amongst
  11. Anti
  12. Around
  13. As (also Conj.)
  14. Astride
  15. At
  16. Atop (poetic)
  17. Bar
  18. Barring
  19. Before (also Conj.)
  20. Behind
  21. Below
  22. Beneath
  23. Beside
  24. Besides
  25. Between
  26. Beyond
  27. But (also Conj.)
  28. By
  29. Circa
  30. Concerning
  31. Considering
  32. Counting
  33. Cum
  34. Despite
  35. Down
  36. During
  37. Except
  38. Excepting
  39. Excluding
  40. Following
  41. For (also Conj.)
  42. From
  43. Given
  44. Gone
  45. In
  46. Including
  47. Inside
  48. Into
  49. Less
  50. Like
  51. Minus
  52. Near
  53. Notwithstanding
  54. Of
  55. Off
  56. On
  57. Onto/See On To
  58. Opposite
  59. Outside
  60. Over
  61. Past
  62. Pending
  63. Per
  64. Plus
  65. Pro
  66. Re
  67. Regarding
  68. Respecting
  69. Round
  70. Save (formal)
  71. Saving (formal)
  72. Since (also Conj.)
  73. Than (also Conj.)
  74. Through/Thru
  75. Throughout
  76. Till (also Conj.)
  77. To
  78. Touching
  79. Toward
  80. Towards
  81. Under
  82. Underneath
  83. Unlike
  84. Until (formal, Also Conj.)
  85. Up
  86. Upon (formal)
  87. Versus
  88. Via
  89. With
  90. Within
  91. Without
  92. Worth
    93. Complex Prepositions
  93. According to
  94. Ahead of
  95. A la (from French)
  96. Along with
  97. Apart from
  98. As for
  99. Aside from
  100. As per
  101. As of
  102. As to
  103. As well as
  104. Away from
  105. Because of
  106. But for
  107. By means of
  108. Close to
  109. Contrary to
  110. Depending on
  111. Due to
  112. Except for
  113. Forward of
  114. Further to
  115. In addition to
  116. In between
  117. In case of
  118. In face of
  119. In favour of
  120. In front of
  121. In lieu of
  122. In place of
  123. In spite of
  124. Instead of
  125. In view of
  126. Irrespective of
  127. Near to
  128. Next to
  129. On account of
  130. On behalf of
  131. On board
  132. On to/see onto
  133. On top of
  134. Opposite to
  135. Other than
  136. Out of
  137. Outside of
  138. Owing to
  139. Preparatory to
  140. Prior to
  141. Regardless of
  142. Save for
  143. Thanks to
  144. Together with
  145. Up against
  146. Up to
  147. Up until
  148. Vis-Ã -vis (from French)
  149. With reference to
  150. With regard to


Preposition List
A aboard, about, above, across, after, against, ahead of, along, amid, amidst, among, anti, around, as, as far as, as of, aside from, at, athwart, atop
B barring, because of, before, behind, below, beneath, beside, besides, between, beyond, but, by, by means of
C circa, concerning
D despite, down, during
E except, except for, excluding
F far from, following, for, from
I in, in accordance with, in addition to, in case of, in front of, in lieu of, in place of, in spite of, including, inside, instead of, into
L like
M minus
N near, next to, notwithstanding
O of, off, on, on account of, on behalf of, on top of, onto, opposite, out, out of, outside, over
P past, plus, prior to
R regarding, regardless of
S save, since
T than, through, till, to, toward, towards
U under, underneath, unlike, until, up, upon
V versus, via
W with, with regard to, within, without

What is a prepositional phrase?

Subject + Verb + Object + Prepositional Phrase = Simple Sentence


A prepositional phrase has two basic parts: a preposition plus a noun or a pronoun that serves as the object of the preposition.

Remember the following rules for prepositional phrases and you will find that using them becomes much easier.
•Prepositional phrases always consist of two basic parts at minimum: the object and the preposition.
•In formal English, prepositions are almost always followed by objects.
•Adjectives can be placed between the prepositions and objects in prepositional phrases.
•Prepositional phrases can act as adverbs or adjectives. When they are used as adjectives, they modify nouns and pronouns in the same way single-word adjectives do.
•When prepositional phrases are used as adverbs, they at the same way single-word adverbs and adverb clauses do, modifying adjectives, verbs, and other adverbs.

If the sentence has an indirect object, it will always come between the verb and the direct object. If there is information after the direct object about who received it, that is most likely a prepositional phrase (Jeff threw the ball to Mark.). A prepositional phrase cannot be an indirect object.

Examples of Prepositional Phrases

The following sentences contain examples of prepositional phrases; the prepositional phrase in each sentence is italicized for easy identification.

The cupcake with sprinkles is yours.

The cupcake with colorful sprinkles is yours.

We climbed up the hill .

We climbed up the very steep hill .

The rabbits hopped through the garden .

The rabbits hopped through the perfectly manicured garden.


List of Prepositional Phrases

While there are only about 150 prepositions in the English language, there are thousands of other words that can make their way into prepositional phrases. Learn to create a colorful prepositional phrase, and your writing will be wonderfully appealing.

Down the tree
Up the hill
Around the mulberry bush
Into the woods
With chopped nuts
Near a fast-flowing river
Within the book’s pages
Through the tunnel
In spite of
Instead of
Any more
On account of
To the fact that
Because of

Prepositional phrases modify other parts of a sentence. They may be found in several other places in a sentence. Examples:
(Initial) In the big house, Monica felt safe.
(Medial) I was walking rapidly, through the snow, and I was getting cold.
(Final) Ali slumped like a broken doll, after the fight.
Here are further guidelines.
Prepositions of Movement
Prepositions of Place
Prepositions of Time
Questions and prepositions
Prepositions at the end of questions

Classes of Prepositions

Simple Prepositions
Double Prepositions
Compound Prepositions
Phrasal Prepositions
Participial Prepositions
Disguised Prepositions

Preposition Use
Preposition Use and Regional Variations
Would you like to conduct research on prepositions in English language?
Do you know anyone who needs to conduct research on prepositions in English language?

Why is there need to conduct research on prepositions in English language?
Regional variations occur in the use of prepositions.

What is expected of your prepositions research in English language?
You have to elaborate on everything relevant to prepositions in at least 50 question-and-answer presentations in English language.

Place Preposition

How many place prepositions are there?
At least 39.

Place preposition: What are various examples?
About
Above
Across
After
Against
Along
Among
Around
At*
Behind
Below
Beside
Between
By
Close to
Down
From
In Front of
In*
Inside
Into
Near
Next to
Off
On*
Onto
Opposite
Out of
Outside
Over
Past
Round
Through
To
Toward
Under
Up
Within

What is a place preposition?
Place prepositions are used to show the position or location of one thing compared to another.
It answers the question "where?"
The place presumptions are between two nouns or an action verb and a noun.
Some consider prepositions of place to be prepositions of direction as well.

How do you use place prepositions in a simple declarative sentence?
The books are about, above, across, after, against, along, among, around, at, behind, below, beside, between, by, close to, down, from, in front of, in, inside, into, near, next to, off, on, onto, opposite, out of, outside, over, past, round, through, to, toward, under, up, within, the box. [among and between require multiple or plural nouns following them (among = 3 or more, between = 2).

Time Preposition

Time prepositions have already been explained.

Preposition Use
Preposition Use and Regional Variations

Why must you know regional variations when using prepositions?
If you are an author, these abilities are necessary for your job.

What are the regional variations in the use of prepositions in English language?
I will be investigating this case on the weekend. (American English)
Use "on" with specific days of the week or year.
I will be investigating this case at the weekend. (British and Scottish English)

How did existing English language newspaper editors edit texts on or before April 8, 2021?
Most English language newspaper editors modify prewritten documents in English language.
Most English language newspaper editors use software for English language editing.
They must practice developing question-and-answer presentations in English language from scratch that can help with research and investigations.

Do prepositions have inflections?
No.

Do prepositions have meaning in English?
Yes.

What are various examples?
Take a look at this.
https://qureshiuniversity.com/schoolworld.html#Prepositions

Use of the Word On in English Language

On: What is it?
Preposition of time.
On is also a preposition of place.
I was investigating this case on June 1, 2019. Preposition of time.
The book is on the table. Preposition of place.

What are the types?
Preposition of time: on
Preposition of place: on

Are inflections (prefix, suffix, plural, possessive) applicable to this word?
No

What other classes of words should you know with this word?
Determiners, Nouns.

What is another word for this word?
There is no similar word.
At, on, and in are in a similar category.

What is the technique for remembering the use of this word in English language?
Remember the example sentences.
Practice the example sentences.
Write your own prepositional phrases in various types of sentences.

How do you use this word to make declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory sentences?
Use on to make a prepositional phrase.
The book is on the table. Preposition of place. Simple declarative sentence.
on the table (prepositional phrase)
Preposition + determiner + noun

Where is the prepositional phrase placed in a simple declarative sentence in English language?
Place the prepositional phrase at the end of the simple declarative sentence.
A prepositional phrase can be placed in many other locations depending on the type of sentence in English language.

What are various example sentences?
I was investigating this case at 3 PM on March 22, 2005, in Chicago, Illinois.
The on here is a preposition of time.
Subject + main verb + object + prepositional phrase
Simple declarative sentence.
Past continuous tense

The book is on the table.
The on here is a preposition of place.
Subject + linking verb + prepositional phrase

I will be investigating this case, and she will be investigating this case.
Compound declarative sentence.

On March 22, 2005, I was investigating this case.
Complex declarative sentence

On March 22, 2005, I was investigating this case, and she was investigating this case.
Compound complex declarative sentence

What a nice evening it was on Monday!
How noble of him to do that on Monday!
Exclamatory sentence

Who was investigating this case on March 22, 2005?
Question
Interrogative part + action verb phrase + object + prepositional phrase

What do you have to do?
Investigate this case on or before March 22, 2005.
Imperative sentence