Wednesday, May 28, 2014

#7 Preposition


 


DEFINITION

* A word in a sentence that shows the relationship between a noun or a pronoun and another word in a sentence is called as an adverb. 

* It indicates the temporal, spatial, or logical relationship, of its object to the rest of the sentence.

* The example can be seen in the picture above. 

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PREPOSITIONS OF TIME 

* At
: Used to designate specific times
eg : We departed at 9.00 pm.                         

* On
: Used to designate days and times
eg :  My brother is coming on Monday

* In
: Used for nonspecific times during a day, a month, a season, or a year.
eg : She likes to jog in the morning
    :  It's too cold in winter to run outside.

* For
: Used to measure time
: Seconds, minutes, hours, days, months, years.
eg : I have been studying for 3 hours.

* Since
: Used for specific time or dates
eg : The shop has been operated since 1965

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PREPOSITION OF MOVEMENT

* To
: We used to in order to express movement toward a place
eg : They were driving to the work together

* Toward / Towards
: Both of them are helpful prepositions to express movements.
: The variant spellings is an option to whichever sounds better to you.
eg : We are moving towards the light



 



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