What's up with Prepositions?
A preposition is a word that shows a relationship between its object and some other word in the sentence. Every preposition must have an object to complete the phrase. The object will either be a noun or a pronoun. If there is no object, then the word in question is not a preposition.
Examples:
| as of | before | from among | owing to |
| about | behind | in addition to | on account of |
| above | below | in front of | onto |
| across | beneath | in | out of |
| after | beside | inside | past |
| against | besides | into | prior to |
| along | between | in back of | regarding |
| among | beyond | in regard to | since |
| around | but | in place of | subsequent to |
| as | by | instead of | through |
| as for | by means of | in spite of | to |
| at | concerning | like | toward |
| ahead of | consisting of | near | together with |
| alongside | down | next to | towards |
| amid | during | of | up |
Prepositions with nouns, adjectives, and verbs.
Prepositions are sometimes so firmly wedded to other words that they have practically become one word. This occurs in three categories: nouns, adjectives, and verbs.
Nouns and Prepositions
of understanding reason for love of
Adjectives and Prepositions
afraid of sorry for in about
Verbs and Prepositions
ask about look forward study for talk about