What is a preposition? It’s one of the eight parts of speech! Continue reading to learn about prepositions and prepositional phrases.

More Examples

I will bring chicken soup to my brother’s bar mitzvah.

To shows the relationship between the chicken soup and the object of preposition, my brother’s bar mitzvah.

The comic book store is around the corner.

Around shows the spatial, or space-oriented, relationship between the comic book store and the object of preposition, the corner.

Bats sleep during the day.

During shows the temporal, or time, relationship of when bats sleep by connecting it to the object of preposition, the day.

Commonly Used Prepositions

aboard	before	during	on	to
about	behind	except	onto	toward
above	below	excepting	opposite	under
across	beneath	for	out	underneath
after	beside	from	outside	until
against	between	in	over	unto
along	beyond	inside	past	up
amid	but*	into	pending	upon
among	by	like	regarding	with
around	concerning	near	since	within
as	despite	of	through	without
at	down	off	throughout

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