"RELATIONSHIP IS SHOWN BY PREPOSITION"

Prepositions indicate relationships between other words in a sentence.

Preposition is a word or group of words, which shows relationships, direction, time, place, location, position between two objects / words or to introduce an object and is placed before Noun, Pronoun OR Noun Phrases. Proposition is a word with a Noun / Pronoun to tell – What, Where, When and How.

Some examples of prepositions are words like "in," "at," "on," "of," and "to."

Examples:

• The book is on the table.
Note : Here “on” shows the relationship between the book and table.
• The school is near the temple.
Note : Here “near” shows the relationship between the school and temple.

» Kinds of Prepositions are:

(1) Prepositions of Time

(2) Prepositions of Position

(3) Prepositions of Direction

Uses of Prepositions:

Simple Prepositions are:

on	the	in	near	under	behind
between	about	above	among	without	across
after	before	against	opposite	along	around
at	down	during	for	from	into
onto	like	of	since	than	with
within	towards	till	until	inside	outside
up	underneath	beneath	through	over	below

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Prepositional verbs – the phrasal combinations of verbs and prepositions – are important parts of speech.
The prepositions most commonly used with verbs are: to, for, of, in, at, on and from.

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Prepositions can form phrases with adjectives to give further context to the action, emotion or thing the adjective is describing.
Adjectives can be followed by: to, about, In, for, with, at and by.

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Examples:

According to	By virtue of
Along with	By way of
About-from	Except for
As for	In case of
Because of	In addition to
But for	In favour of
By means of	Instead of
With reference to	In spite of