RULES REGARDING PREPOSITIONS

RULES REGARDING PREPOSITIONS

Use ‘in’ for countries and big towns.

·         She was born in New Zealand.

·         I live in Mumbai.

Use ‘at’ for addresses.

·         Are you still at that address?
We live at D 23, MG Road.

Use ‘in’ for position inside a three dimensional space.

·         The cat is in the kitchen.

Use ‘on’ for position on the surface of something.

·         There is something on the roof.

·         Put the books on the table.

Use ‘to’ and ‘into’ to show direction.

·         He went to work.

·         The child fell into the well.

Use ‘till’ to indicate time.

·         I waited till 6 o’clock.

Use ‘since’ to indicate the starting point of something.

·         I have been waiting since morning.

Use ‘for’ to indicate duration.

·         It rained for two hours.

·         We have been living in this city for three years.

Use ‘from’ to indicate the source.

·         She comes from a small town.

Use ‘to’ to indicate the destination.

·         He went to America.

Use ‘between’ to indicate position between two or more clearly defined people or objects.

·         The child sat between his father and parents.

Use ‘among’ to indicate position among more than two people or objects.

·         She sat among the children.

Use ‘with’ to indicate the instrument and ‘by’ to indicate the agent.

·         He killed the spider with a stone.

·         The spider was killed by the boy.

Use ‘beside’ to mean ‘by the side of’.

·         The boy sat beside his mother.