Prepositions

sPrepositions are words that show a connection between things, for example a connection between
* A person and where he or she is going

* An object and who it belongs to

* An eventand when it happens

Prepositions can be represented by one word –simple prepositions- or two and or three words – complex prepositions-.
A preposition is usually followed by a noun, a noun phraseor a pronoun. We usually use reflexive pronouns when the object of a verb is the same as the subject:

Did you hurt yourself?

When the propositionis not closely linked to the verb we usually get ordinary pronouns rather than reflexive pronouns:
Do you have a pen with you?

A clause containing that cannot beused as the object of a preposition so we have to add “the fact” or a similar noun phrase before the conjunction that:
His fear of animals was due to the fact that he hadalways lived in the city

Prepositions can be found immediately before its object: “April comes before June” or at the end of a clause: “Where do you come from?

Exclamations beginning with a nounphrase leave the preposition at the end of the exclamation:
What an embarrassing situation you have put me in!

Relative clauses are divided into the defining type thatworks rather like an adjective and it identifies something or somebody (“I recognize the boy who she was speaking to”) and the non-defining type that adds information about something that has alreadybeen identified: (“The south area, which I had been long familiar with, had changed considerably”)

In a formal style, the to-infitive construction is used for warning against things:He is not a man to introduce your daughter to.

In the case of direct questions, when a WH pronoun is the object of a preposition ir begins the question and the preposition is left at the...