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60 GRAMMAR
Prepositions SEE ALSO
20–21 Parts of speech
PREPOSITIONS CONNECT NOUNS AND PRONOUNS TO OTHER 22–23 Nouns
30–31 Articles
WORDS IN A SENTENCE. 34–35 Pronouns
Prepositions never appear alone. They are short words that convey 56–57 Phrasal verbs
Phrases 64–65
the relationship of a noun or pronoun to another part of a sentence— Commas 96–99
often the physical position of one thing in relation to another.
Simple prepositions • In formal writing, sentences
Prepositions are common in written and spoken English. They should not end with prepositions,
usually appear as part of a prepositional phrase, and include but this practice is common in
words like for, about, with, of, and on. A prepositional phrase spoken English. “What are you
is made up of a preposition followed by its object, which is talking about?” is a good example.
a noun, pronoun, or noun phrase. • Prepositional phrases only ever
contain the object of a clause.
preposition adjective
They never contain the subject.
In the sentence “They sped down
a hill,” hill is the object, and they
article noun phrase and is the subject.
object of the preposition
Winston Churchill, Parallel prepositions
objecting to strict Writers can improve their sentences The noun objects hill and stream
require different prepositions, so both
rules about by using consistent language. If must be included in the sentence.
different prepositions are required
prepositional for different nouns, they must all
word order, be included in the sentence. If
one preposition is being used to
famously said, introduce a series of nouns, it only
This preposition applies to both
“That is nonsense needs to be used before the first nouns, so it only needs to appear
noun. The same preposition can be before the first item in this list.
up with which used before each noun, but this
I shall not put.” is repetitive.
