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There are several good ways to remember prepositions:

1. Visualise the word: in the box, on the box, over the box, under the box, behind the box, beside the box, near the box.

2. Think of an event in time: before breakfast, during breakfast, after breakfast, between 9 o'clock and mid-day.

3. Think of movement: to school, from school, run around the school.

or static in a place: at school, the grass around the school.

4. Know the words they are often linked with: wake up, sit down, take off, put on.

5. Below is a list of 52 common prepositions. DON'T learn them! But put them in groups.

Group them with prepositions that are similar.

Write a list of all the prepositions in that group.

e.g.

up

down

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before

after

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i) Draw pictures of the direction or position.

ii) Then link the prepositions with the nouns or verbs they might be used with.

iii) Just do the easy ones first.

iv) Then write a simple sentence using one preposition from one group.

e.g. We must not jump out of the window.

v) Ask your teacher to check that it is correct.

vi) Then speak it, using your hand to gesture the movement, if appropriate.

vii) Then write a similar sentence but using a different preposition from the same group.

e.g. We must play football in the street.

viii) Then tell your friend each sentence, gesturing if possible.

ix) Just have fun with about six prepositions a day.

After a few days you'll automatically know how to use many prepositions.

Don't worry about any difficult ones. You can learn them later!

Then practice what you know. Yes! Practice makes perfect!

You'll be surprised how easy it is to learn prepositions in this way.

And soon you won't even have to think about it!

LIST of prepositions

about

above

across

after

against

along

among

around

at

atop

before

behind

below

beneath

beside

between

beyond

but

by

despite

down

during

except

for

from

in

inside

into

like

near

of

off

on

onto

out

outside

over

past

since

through

throughout

till

to

toward

under

underneath

until

up

upon

with

within

without

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What is the Hebrew translation for the word to?

like all prepositions, it depends on how you use it in a sentence. There isn't a one-to-one correspondence when translating prepositions.


Is on a prepositions?

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What are the double prepositions?

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Can there be two prepositions in one sentence?

Of course there can."When I found the man I was looking for, he was standing outside with his wife, looking at the flowers in the garden."Five prepositions in one sentence.


Can two prepositions sit one after another in a sentence?

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What are prepositions of association?

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Can two prepositions sit one after another?

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Are the words he she and it prepositions?

He, she, and it are pronouns, not prepositions.


Is them a preposition?

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When to omit prepositions?

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