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The document discusses common mistakes made with prepositions in English and provides examples of incorrect versus correct usage. Some key points covered include: using "home" instead of "to home", using "for" to indicate duration rather than "since", including words like "that" in comparisons, using "with" to indicate a tool rather than "by", using "of" rather than "by" after verbs like "die", and using the present perfect or present perfect continuous tenses after expressions with "for" or "since".

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The document discusses common mistakes made with prepositions in English and provides examples of incorrect versus correct usage. Some key points covered include: using "home" instead of "to home", using "for" to indicate duration rather than "since", including words like "that" in comparisons, using "with" to indicate a tool rather than "by", using "of" rather than "by" after verbs like "die", and using the present perfect or present perfect continuous tenses after expressions with "for" or "since".

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Mistakes with prepositions

Incorrect: He is going to home.


Correct: He is going home.

The preposition ‘to’ is not normally used with ‘home’.

Incorrect: The children have been playing since two hours.


Correct: The children have been playing for two hours.

We use ‘for’ to indicate duration. ‘Since’ is used with the starting point of action.

Incorrect: An ordinary man’s life is different from a minister.


Correct: An ordinary man’s life is different from that of a minister.

Do not omit the words ‘that’ and ‘those’ in comparisons.

Incorrect: He hit me by a stick.


Correct: He hit me with a stick.

The preposition ‘by’ shows the agent – the person who performs the action. The preposition ‘with’ shows the
tool with which the action is performed.

Incorrect: I need a pen to write.


Correct: I need a pen to write with.
Incorrect: Many people died by cholera.
Correct: Many people died of cholera.
Incorrect: India has been independent for 1947.
Correct: India has been independent since 1947.
Incorrect: I am ill since three weeks.
Correct: I have been ill for three weeks.

In expressions with ‘for’ and ‘since’, we normally use the present perfect and present perfect continuous
tenses.

Incorrect: This paper is inferior than that.


Correct: This paper is inferior to that.

After adjectives like inferior, superior, senior and junior, we use the preposition ‘to’ instead of the preposition
‘than’.

Incorrect: This is different to that.


Correct: This is different from that. / This is different than that.

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