Prepositions

PREPOSITIONS


• UNTIL (TILL) when the action or situation ends.
- We played football until 5 o’clock


FROM .................... TO/UNTIL

- I worked from 8.00 to 6.00yesterday.
- We’ll be away from July 6 until August 4.
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• BY (not later than)
- You really must bring it back by 12.00 on Sunday.


• FOR + period (how long)DURING (tells you when) / + noun
- I slept for 20 minutes during the lesson.
- The journey lasted for three days.
- There was a rainstorm during the night
.WHILE + subject + verb

- He got ill while he was travelling.

• IN / ON (place)
In: 3- dimensional places like boxes, rooms, towns or cities.
On: 2- dimensional surfaces like floors,tables, walls or ceilings.
- Why are all those papers on the floor?
- ‘Where’s Joe?’ ‘In the kitchen’
In a book, in a newspaper, in a story, in a street, on a page.
In a car/ taxi
On abus/ train/ plane/ ship.

• AT (place)
To show where something happens (meeting places, points on a journey).
- I’ll see you this evening at Sarah’s house.
- I saw Ann Waiting atthe bus stop.
For things that people do, or the places where they do them.
- at a football match
- at the theatre, at the office
- at work
With ‘the top, the bottom, thebeginning, the end , the side’
- My room’s at the top of the house
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OTHER PREPOSITIONS OF PLACE

ABOVE The plane is flying above the clouds
BEHIND
AGAINST I left my bikeagainst the shop window.
BETWEEN
BY Come and sit by me
IN FRONT OF
OPPOSITE
UNDER
NEAR
• PREPOSITIONS OF MOVEMENT
ACROSS the river OUT OF the shop
ALONG the yellow line DOWNthe mountain
INTO the water OFF the bike
OVER the fence PAST the café
ROUND the corner THROUGH the gate
UNDER the bridge UP the steps

• TO –movemet I went to the bus stop to meet...