Prepositions

 ‘ AT’ – ‘ON’ – ‘IN’

 All these prepositions are used with expressions of both, time and place. Click below for collocations

•→ Prepositions of TIME  ⇐ 

Notice we tend to use ‘at‘ with clock times and special periods, ‘on‘ for a particular day, and ‘in‘ for longer periods.

•→ Prepositions of PLACE ⇐

If you focus on place, you must think in terms of a one-dimensional reference point (‘at‘), a two-dimensional area/line (‘on‘), or a three-dimensional volume/space (‘in‘)

♦  Animal Sentences with ‘On’ ⇓

The animals in the video include: chameleon, spider, turtle, alligator, butterfly, pelican, swan, vulture, cat, dog, buffalo, lynx, hummingbird, meerkat and stork.

◊  ‘FOR’  vs  ‘TO’  ↓    →[quiz]←

   •→ OVER←    //    •→ THROUGH←

¤  Prepositions showing Location, Time, Action & Movement←

•→Prepositions & Phrasal verbs ←•

◊  Collocations w/ «THINK» ⇓  …about, of, over, through, ahead, back, up, to

¤  End use of prepositions  ¤

• Typical Use of Prepositions

Usually, the preposition (pre-position meaning «placing before») comes before its object in a phrase. Most often that object is a noun phrase or a pronoun. The preposition connects words together to show the relationship between words. Some examples of the regular use of the preposition in its usual place are as follows:

Here is a difficult issue for you.

Unfortunately, I left my umbrella in the closet.

She directed her attention to the witness.

• Prepositions at the End

In some constructions, however, we place the prepositional object at or near the beginning of a clause. In the examples below, the preposition stays together with the verb, adjective, or noun with which it is associated:

Wh- questions:

Who’s the envelope for? 

What are you getting at?

What’s the weather like?

Wh- clauses:

These are people whom you would like to be associated with.

I wish I knew what you were thinking of.

Tell me what you’re worried about.

Restrictive clauses introduced by ‘that’:

Here is the error [that] I told you about.

Surely it’s the verdict that he’s so angry at.

You remember the boy [ ] she was going out with?

Infinitive structures:

Their last child was difficult to find a name for.

Some people find suburbia a boring place to live in.

The airport isn’t an easy place to get to.

Passive voice verbs:

In some families, money is never spoken about.

Yesterday, the plaintiff was operated on.

We all hate being laughed at.

By MARTHA FAULK [http://store.westlaw.com/pdf/perspec/wtip1299.pdf]

• Exceptions:  «During» and «since» are never put at the end of clauses.

During which period did it happen? 

Since when have you been working for them?

∞  ‘BESIDE’  (preposition)  ⇑  ‘BESIDES’  (adverb)