The dog is on the sofa The lamp is near the dog The cat is in front of the dog

USO DE LAS PREPOSICIONES Las preposiciones pueden realizar distintas funciones: - Servir de enlace entre dos palabras o distintos elementos en la oracin: I'll see you at five o'clock / Te ver a las cinco - Pueden acompaar a un verbo sirviendo de enlace a su complemento. En este caso, pueden no alterar el significado del verbo o alterarlo con lo que constituyen una palabra distinta. To look / Mirar (no altera el significado del verbo) To look after / Cuidar de (se altera el significado del verbo) - Cuando ponemos un verbo despus de una preposicin, en ingls normalmente se utiliza la forma ' ing' y no el infinitivo. You shouldnt go to India without visiting the Taj Mahal. No deberas ir a la India sin visitar el Taj Mahal. Im interested in studying psychology. / Estoy interesado en estudiar psicologa. Las principales preposiciones en ingls son: about after at behind beneath between by except from alrededor de, sobre detrs de, despus de en, junto a detrs de debajo de entre (dos o ms) por, junto a excepto de, desde above among before below beside but down for in por encima de entre (tres o ms) antes de, delante de debajo de junto a excepto, pero hacia abajo para, por, durante, desde hace en, dentro de

into near off over through till = until under upon without

en, adentro cerca de de (alejndose), fuera de por encima de, al otro lado a travs de hasta por debajo de (poniendo) sobre, encima sin

como, igual a like de of en, sobre on desde since throughout por todo a, hasta, hacia to hacia arriba up con with

POSICIN DE LAS PREPOSICIONES Generalmente, se colocan delante del sustantivo o del pronombre, excepto en los siguientes casos: a.) Con el pronombre relativo, cuando va seguido de preposicin, sta puede colocarse en la posicin final. The girls I study with / Las muchachas con las que estudio (en lugar de: The girls with whom I study) b.) En frases interrogativas cuando empiezan por un pronombre interrogativo: Who were you speaking to? / con quin estabas hablando? (en lugar de: To whom were you speaking?) LA PREPOSICIN Y LA CONTRACCIN La contraccin espaola, es decir, la fusin de una preposicin con el artculo definido (al, del) no existen en ingls. Se traducen siempre por la preposicin seguida del artculo definido y separado de ella (al = a el) (del = de el): Tell it to the chairman / Dgaselo al presidente

Prepositions Definition: Prepositions are a class of words that indicate relationships between nouns, pronouns and other words in a sentence. Most often they come before a noun. They never change their form, regardless of the case, gender etc. of the word they are referring to. Some common prepositions are: about above across after against along among around at before behind below beneath beside between beyond but

by despite down during except for from in inside into like near of off on onto out

outside over past since through throughout till to toward under underneath until up upon with within without.

Prepositions typically come before a noun: For example:

after class at home before Tuesday in London on fire with pleasure

A preposition usually indicates the temporal, spatial or logical relationship of its object to the rest of the sentence. For example:

The book is on the table. The book is beside the table. She read the book during class.

In each of the preceding sentences, a preposition locates the noun "book" in space or in time. Prepositions are classified as simple or compound. Simple prepositions Simple prepositions are single word prepositions. These are all showed above. For example:

The book is on the table.

Compound prepositions Compound prepositions are more than one word. in between and because of are prepositions made up of two words - in front of, on behalf of are prepositions made up of three words. For example:

The book is in between War and Peace and The Lord of the Rings. The book is in front of the clock.

Examples:

The children climbed the mountain without fear. There was rejoicing throughout the land when the government was defeated. The spider crawled slowly along the banister.

The following table contains rules for some of the most frequently used prepositions in English:

Prepositions of Time: English

Usage

Example

on

days of the week months / seasons time of day year after a certain period of time (when?) for night for weekend a certain point of time (when?) from a certain point of time (past till now) over a certain period of time (past till now) a certain time in the past earlier than a certain point of time telling the time telling the time marking the beginning and end of a period of time in the sense of how long something is going to last in the sense of at the latest up to a certain time

on Monday in August / in winter in the morning in 2006 in an hour

in

at

at night at the weekend at half past nine

since

since 1980

for ago before to past to / till / until

for 2 years 2 years ago before 2004 ten to six (5:50) ten past six (6:10) from Monday to/till Friday He is on holiday until Friday. I will be back by 6 oclock. By 11 o'clock, I had read

till / until

by

English

Usage

Example five pages.

Prepositions of Place: English

in

Usage room, building, street, town, country book, paper etc. car, taxi picture, world meaning next to, by an object for table for events place where you are to do something typical (watch a film, study, work) attached for a place with a river being on a surface for a certain side (left, right) for a floor in a house for public transport for television, radio left or right of somebody or something on the ground, lower than (or covered by) something else lower than something else but above ground covered by something else

Example in the kitchen, in London in the book in the car, in a taxi in the picture, in the world

at

at the door, at the station at the table at a concert, at the party at the cinema, at school, at work

on

the picture on the wall London lies on the Thames. on the table on the left on the first floor on the bus, on a plane on TV, on the radio Jane is standing by / next to / beside the car.

by, next to, beside

under

the bag is under the table

below over

the fish are below the surface put a jacket over your shirt

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Usage meaning more than getting to the other side (also across) overcoming an obstacle higher than something else, but not directly over it getting to the other side (also over) getting to the other side something with limits on top, bottom and the sides movement to person or building movement to a place or country for bed enter a room / a building movement in the direction of something (but not directly to it) movement to the top of something in the sense of where from

Example over 16 years of age walk over the bridge climb over the wall

above

a path above the lake

across

walk across the bridge swim across the lake

through

drive through the tunnel

to

go to the cinema go to London / Ireland go to bed

into

go into the kitchen / the house go 5 steps towards the house

towards

onto

jump onto the table

from

a flower from the garden