Types of Preposition with Examples – Download PDF

Types of preposition with examples! All the types of preposition are described with examples. You can download the PDF of all the kinds of prepositions.

Preposition

Prepositions are a class of words that indicate relationship between noun pronoun and other words in a sentence. Most often they come before a noun.

Examples:

1. In
2. On
3. Of
4. Between
5. At are the examples of the prepositions.

Classification of prepositions

Prepositions are classified as simple and compound.

1. Simple
2. Compound

Simple preposition

Simple prepositions are single word prepositions form, of, on, with are the simple prepositions.

Examples:

1. The book is on the chair.
2. I don’t work at night.

Compound preposition

Compound prepositions are more than one word prepositions “in between” and because of are the preposition made up of two words in front of and on behalf of are preposition made up of three words.

Examples:

1. The book is “ in front of” the clock.
2. My English textbook is lying “ In between “ the two books “ War and peace” and “ The lord of the Rings”.

Kinds of preposition

1. Preposition of time
2. Preposition of place
3. Preposition of direction

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Preposition of time

The preposition which is show the time when something is happens.

The preposition of time are “at , on, for, to, during, by are the preposition of the time.

Examples:

1. I start work at 5a;00 am.
2. My brother birthday is on Tuesday.
3. In winter its too cold to work.

Preposition of place

Prepositions can be used to show where something is located.

simple mean  prepositions which shows the place where something is located is called preposition of place.

The prepositions of place are “In, at, after, among, between are preposition of place.

Examples:

They ran after the thief.

I hold the book between my thumb and fingers.

 

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Prepositions of direction

Prepositions are used to show movement to or from a place.

Prepositions of direction are “To through, across, back to, are the direction prepositions.

Examples:

1. I moved to Karachi in 1992.
2. She swam across the river.
3. He walked around the home.

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Some questions about prepositions and its kinds for more information about it.

What is preposition?

A preposition is a word or group of words used before a noun pronoun or noun phrases.

Give three examples of prepositions?

Prepositions are words like “In, on, of, at, to.

Classification of preposition?

Prepositions are classified into two:

1. Simple preposition
2. Compound preposition

What kinds of prepositions?

There are three types of prepositions:

1. Preposition of time
2. Prepositions of place
3. Prepositions of direction

Preposition List

Other than	In face of	In light of	below
Out of	In between	Regardless of	Away
Alongside	with	behind	Due to
Forward of	Aside from	anti	excluding
inside	aboard	Depending on	following
during	around	But for	toward
since	beside	By means of	concerning
Ahead	Owing to	As to	via
Close to	without	except	Except for
of	Contrary to	to	Until/till
under	Including	but	Near to
In spite of	Counting	Outside of	Gone
over	per	On behalf of	According to
Saving	considering	Less	With reference to
round	against	about	despite
Ago	on	along	than
plus	besides	Given	Cum
Far from	among	outside	Circa
opposite	versus	Further to	In front of
Because of	As well as	by	from
With regard to	minus	beyond	Throughout
Up to	In view of	onto	until
On board	Atop	Apart from	excepting
Far	On top of	save	after
Next to	beneath	Toward/towards	unlike
As per	Re	through	above
Up until	up	near	Out
towards	Off of	As for	into
in	Instead of	Pro	before
In addition to	in case of	across	upon
as	like	Bar	past
Along with	underneath	On account of	between
amid	Barring	Away from	Save for
Worth	off	Prior to	Pending
down	within	Thanks to	regarding
Together with	Astride	at	for