Use Of Prepositions & Common Combination and Preposition

Use Of Prepositions

             A preposition describes a relationship between other words in a sentence. In itself, a word like "in" or "after" is rather meaningless and hard to define in mere words. For instance, when you do try to define a preposition like "in" or "between" or "on," you invariably use your hands to show how something is situated in relationship to something else. Prepositions are nearly always combined with other words in structures called prepositional phrases. Prepositional phrases can be made up of a million different words, but they tend to be built the same: a preposition followed by a determiner and an adjective or two, followed by a pronoun or noun (called the object of the preposition). This whole phrase, in turn, takes on a modifying role, acting as an adjective or an adverb, locating something in time and space, modifying a noun, or telling when or where or under what conditions something happened.


Examples:

To

Used to indicate the place, person, or thing that someone or something moves toward, or the direction of something:

• I am heading to the entrance of the building.
• The package was mailed to Mr. Kim yesterday.
• All of us went to the movie theater.
• Please send it back to me.

Used to indicate a limit or an endin
g point:

• The snow was piled up to the roof.
• The stock prices rose up to 100 dollars.

Used to indicate relationship:

• This letter is very important to your admission.
• My answer to your question is in this envelop.
• Do not respond to every little thing in your life.

Used to indicate a time or a period:

• I work nine to six, Monday to Friday.

It is now 10 to five. (In other words, it is 4:50.)  

Prepositions of Place : at, on, and in.

• We use at for specific address.
  • Grammar English live at 55 Boretz Road in Durham.

  We use on to designate name of streets, avenues, etc.
  • Her house is on Boretz Road.

  And we use in for the names of land-areas (towns, countries, states,countries, and continents).
• She live in Durham.
• Durham is in Windham Country.
• Windham Country is in Connecticut.

Common Combination and Preposition.

              Most phrasal verb is composed of two words: verb + particle. But some are made up of three words, namely: particle + verb + preposition, which is known as phrasal-prepositional verb. So phrasal-prepositional multi-word verb is a verb which consists of a verb, particle and preposition.

nouns	preposition	examples
age, attempt, point	at	18 is the age at which you are allowed to vote. Fisk is making his third attempt at the world record.
need, reason, responsibility	for	What’s the reason for your unhappiness? Nobody seems to have responsibility for the budget.
changes, differences, increase	in	Changes in society have meant that young people leave home earlier. There’s been a steady increase in the value of the euro.
inquiry, investigation, research	into	The police inquiry into the theft continues. She did some research into the causes of back pain.
cause, example, way	of	This is an example of international collaboration. We need to find another way of doing things.
approach, reaction, response	to	My reaction to it all was to try to forget it. Her response to the criticism was very strong.