PREPOSITION

PREPOSITION

 
Have you guessed what these words are? If you said prepositions you are correct. Prepositions show the relationship between two nouns or pronouns in a sentence. It shows direction or time. Prepositions are like conjunctions, they connect a noun or pronoun to another sentence.

Example of a preposition used in a sentence: He hides under the desk. Another example: We hiked the long trail and finally found shelter inside the cave.
Other examples of prepositions are as follows: of, below, across, down, on, during, except, toward, around, and like and many more.

Prepositions are a class of words that indicate relationships between nouns, pronouns and other words in a sentence. Most often they come before a noun. They never change their form, regardless of the case, gender etc. of the word they are referring to.



Example of a preposition used in a sentence: He hides under the desk. Another example: We hiked the long trail and finally found shelter inside the cave.
Other examples of prepositions are as follows: of, below, across, down, on, during, except, toward, around, and like and many more.


Prepositions are a class of words that indicate relationships between nouns, pronouns and other words in a sentence. Most often they come before a noun. They never change their form, regardless of the case, gender etc. of the word they are referring to.
Some common prepositions are:
About                   
before
behind                                     
below
beneath
beside
between

 
For example:
ü  after class
ü  at home
ü  before Tuesday
ü  in London
ü  on fire
ü  with pleasure
A preposition usually indicates the temporal, spatial or logical relationship of its object to the rest of the sentence.


For example:
ü  The book is on the table.
ü  The book is beside the table.
ü  She read the book during class.
In each of the preceding sentences, a preposition locates the noun "book" in space or in time.
Compound prepositions
Compound prepositions are more than one word. In between and because of are prepositions made up of two words - in front of, on behalf of are prepositions made up of three words.
For example:
v  The book is in between War and Peace and The Lord of the Rings.
v  The book is in front of the clock.
Examples:
v  The children climbed the mountain without fear.
v  There was rejoicing throughout the land when the government was defeated.
v  The spider crawled slowly along the banister.
Prepositions are short words (on, in, to) that usually stand in front of nouns (sometimes also in front of gerund verbs).
Even advanced learners of English find prepositions difficult, as a 1:1 translation is usually not possible. One preposition in your native language might have several translations depending on the situation.
 
Prepositions of place


Prepositions are invariable words that link a syntactic element either with a full noun.
Prepositions (except as) lack of accent and always use your term proclisis, which expresses and reinforces its syntactic unit.
Between a preposition and a term, can be interspersed articles or other determiners Ex: For Home, Memories of old time, He did it for their children; with that rain cannot get out, and so on.

The vagueness of meaning in prepositions is much higher than in other words, because they are able to establish multiple relationships between a term and another.
Prepositions are part of what is called invariable words of prayer; serve to indicate the relationship between two words, because they have no gender or number, such as nouns, adjectives and pronouns. No matter where I do not go the preposition, nor whether it is located before a noun or a verb is always the same word.

The function of prepositions is to link two words or groups of words together. For example, if we say "we will eat," there is no relationship between these two words to enable us to understand the message. Just put a preposition in the middle, linking both words and the message is understood, as: "We'll eat, we will not eat, and we leave for lunch, after lunch we will."

Clearly, the meaning of the sentence changes as the preposition is used, since each has a different meaning.
In our language or univerbales simple prepositions are:
a, at, under, with, against, from, during, in between, to, to, to, for, pro, as without, so, on after.

The compound or pluriverbales are:
Above, below, beside, behind, in front of, toward, on, above, in order, because, compared to, in accordance with, against, and others.
Prepositions may indicate origin, source, destination, direction, location, medium, company, reason, time, opposition, etc.