prepositional phrase

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	By	outside
About	Despite	Over
Across	Down	Past
Across	During	Since
Against	Except	Through
Along	For	Throughout
Among	from	Till
around	In	To
At	inside	Toward
Before	into	Under
Behind	like	Underneath
below	near	Until
Beneath	of	Up
Beside	off	Upon
Between	on	With
Beyond	onto	Within
but	out	without

 

Prepositions typically come before a noun:

For example:

• after class

• at home

• before Tuesday

• in London

• on fire

• with pleasure

A preposition usually indicates the temporal, spatial or logical relationship of its object to the rest of the sentence.

For example:

• The book is on the table.

• The book is beside the table.

• She read the book during class.

In each of the preceding sentences, a preposition locates the noun "book" in space or in time.

Prepositions are classified as simple or compound.

Simple prepositions

Simple prepositions are single word prepositions. These are all showed above.

For example:

• The book is on the table.

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:

• The book is in between War and Peace and The Lord of the Rings.

• The book is in front of the clock.

Examples:

• The children climbed the mountain without fear.

• There was rejoicing throughout the land when the government was defeated.

• The spider crawled slowly along the banister.