PREPOSITION
A preposition is a word used to link nouns, pronouns, or
phrases to other words within a sentence. They act to
connect the people, objects, time and locations of a
sentence. A nice way to think about prepositions is as the
words that help glue a sentence together. Several of the
most frequently used words in all of English, such as in,
to, at, on, of, off, above, under, across, with, and for, are
prepositions.
Examples:
He stood under the tree.
She swam across the lake.
The cupcake with sprinkles is mine.
PREPOSITION AND PREPOSITIONAL PHRASE
Preposition is a word/s that shows the relationship between a noun or a pronoun
and some other words or elements in a sentence. Prepositions are always in
prepositional phrase. Prepositional phrase consists of a preposition plus a noun or
pronoun(the object of the preposition). Object of the preposition is a fancy name
of a noun or pronoun that follows the preposition.
PREPOSITIONAL PHRASE= preposition + object of the preposition
Prepositional phrase
He stood under the tree.
Preposition Object of the preposition
KINDS OF PREPOSITION
Simple Preposition
Simple preposition consisting of only one word like of, in, on, at, to, up, under,
with, after etc. And it used in simple sentence.
Examples:
1. I am coming with you.
2. She is in the park.
3. We are going to the market
Compound preposition
Compound prepositions are formed by adding the preposition to front of a
noun, an adjective or an adverb like across, inside, outside, around, behind,
below, between etc.
Examples:
1. I will reach there before she leaves.
2. There is something strange about him.
3. There’s a bank right across the street.
Double prepositions
Double prepositions are two (prepositional) words which are joined together
to connect nouns, pronouns, and phases with other words in sentencelike Outside
of, out of, from behind, up to, next to, because of, according to, etc.
Examples:
1. Nobody outside of this class should know about the plan.
2. According to the news reporter, the weather will be cloudy today.
3. Next to bowling my favorite sport is skating.
Participle prepositions
Participle preposition are verbs end with–ing or -ed that function as a
preposition in a sentence like barring, during, following, frustrated, regarding etc.
Examples:
1. Barring accidents, we should arrive on time.
2. He took charge of the family business following his father’s death.
3. No one should talk during the class.
Phrasal prepositions
Phrasal preposition is a phrase containing a preposition and functions as a
preposition in a sentence and connects nouns, pronouns, or other phrase
together words in a sentence like On behalf of, on account of, with regard to, in
spite of, to the fact that etc.
Examples:
1. He succeeded by means of perseverance.
2. We could not win the match in spite of playing good.
3. Natural honey has been used on account of their healing properties.
There are ten main functions of prepositions and prepositional phrases.
1. Head of preposition phrase
2. Noun phrase modifier
3. Noun phrase complement
4. Adjective phrase modifier
5. Adjective phrase complement
6. Verb phrase modifier
7. Verb phrase complement
8. Adjunct
9. Adverbial
10.Particle
Heads of Prepositional Phrases
Prepositions first function as the heads of prepositional phrases. The head of a
phrase is the defining word type of that phrase. For example, the heads of noun
phrases are nouns, and the heads of verb phrases are verbs.
Modifiers of Phrases
Prepositional phrases secondly function as modifiers and complements of
noun phrases, adjective phrases, and verb phrases. Words and phrases that
function as modifiers modify or define other words and phrases.
Complements of Phrases
Words and phrases that function as complements act to complete the
meaning of other words and phrases. The main difference between modifiers and
complements is that modifiers are optional and can be replaced by any number of
other prepositional phrases while complements are often required.
Adjuncts and Adverbials
Prepositional phrases also function as adjuncts and adverbials in sentences.
Adjuncts frame an entire sentence and are optional. For example, the
prepositional phrase in my opinion in in my opinion, grammar is
interesting functions as an adjunct because in my opinion frames the entire
sentence grammar is interesting as being my opinion. Adverbials are similar to
adjuncts because adverbials also provide additional information about an entire
sentence and are optional.
Particles
Prepositions function as particles in phrasal verbs. Phrasal verbs are verbs that
consist of a verb and one or more prepositions. Examples of phrasal verbs
include wake up meaning "to awake,"
