Prepositions
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Prepositions List:
There are about 150 prepositions in English. Yet this is a very small number when you think of the thousands of other words (nouns, verbs etc). Prepositions are important words. We use individual prepositions more frequently than other individual words.
In fact, the prepositions of, to and in are among the ten most frequent words in English. Here is a short list of 70 of the more common one-word prepositions. Many of these prepositions have more than one meaning. Please refer to a dictionary for precise meaning and usage to know about each of the following prepositions:.
/aboard/about/above/across/after/against/along/ami/among/anti/around
as/at/before/behind/below/beneath/beside/besides/between/beyond/but
by/concerning/considering/despite/down/during/except/excepting/excluding/following/for/from/in/inside/into/like/minus/near/of/off/on/onto/opposite/outside/over/past/per/plus/regarding/round/save/since
than/through/to/toward/towards/under/underneath/unlike/until/up/upon/versus/via/with/within/without/.
As Grammar:
In grammar, a preposition is a part of speech that introduces a prepositional phrase. For example, in the sentence "The cat sleeps on the sofa", the word "on" is a preposition, introducing the prepositional phrase "on the sofa". In English, the most used prepositions are "of", "to", "in", "for", "with" and "on". Simply put, a preposition indicates a relation between things mentioned in a sentence.
In linguistics:
Adpositions are considered members of the syntactic category consisting of an adpositional head and its complement phrase, are used for a wide range of syntactic and semantic functions, most commonly modification and complementation.
The following examples illustrate uses of English prepositional phrases:
As a modifier to a verb:
Sleep throughout the winter
danced at the tables for hours
As a modifier to a noun :
The weather in May
Cheese from France with live bacteria.
As the complement of a verb:
Insist on staying hom
Dispose of unwanted item
As the complement of a noun:
A thirst for reveng
An amendment to the constitution
As the complement of an adjective or adverb :
Attentive to their needs
Separately from its neighbors
As a complement of another preposition:
until after supper
from beneath the bed
Adpositions:
They perform many of the same functions as case markings, but adpositions are syntactic elements, while case markings are morphology.
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