Prepping up for Prepositions!

So how do you like the English language so far? We sincerely hope that with all the help we provide you, it’s gotten easier.

Learning a new language is never easy but it’s a lot of fun! And while learning a new language, you must know the finer details about the language.

We’ve been talking about nouns, adjectives, articles, verbs etc for quite a while now. So today we’re going to look at prepositions.

What are prepositions?

Prepositions are words which are placed before nouns. They usually express a relation between 2 words. For example: “The book is on the desk.” Here, the 2 nouns are ‘book’ and ‘desk’. The relationship between the 2 is ‘on’.

To make it easier on you, let’s just say that prepositions specify:

•     Direction: left, right, across, around etc
•      Placement: behind, in front of, under, over, on, in, inside, beneath etc
•      Time: during, in (as in, in time for the meeting), for, during, while etc

However, there are other important prepositions which you can understand only if you understand the context in which they are used. Let’s take a look at what we’re saying in detail.

•  At: used in the context of age. For example: She learnt to ride a horse at 45!
• About: used in context of topic. For example: We were just talking about you.
• By/on: used in context of medium or method. For example: He got to the restaurant by train. OR He got to the temple by foot.

Now here is an exercise where you can test how well you understand prepositions:

1.     _______ the picture, I can see a woman. 
2.     The woman is sitting _______ a table.
3.     She is sitting _______ a chair.
4.      _______ the table are a laptop, paper, a calculator, two pens and a muffin.
5.     The woman is looking _______ her laptop.

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