Use our list of English prepositions to better learn English - printable & free, English prepositions are essential for ESL. Some prepositions are short, typically containing five letters or fewer. There are, however, a significant number of multi word prepositions. Throughout the evolution of the the English language, new prepositions have come into use, old ones fallen out of use, and the meaning of existing prepositions changed.
A preposition is a word governing, and usually coming in front of, a noun or pronoun and expressing a relation to another word or element, as in:
- She left before breakfast.
- What did you come for? (For what did you come?)
Prepositions:
aboard about above absent according to across after against ahead of along alongside amid amidst among around as as far as as well as at atop before behind below beneath beside between by by means of despite down | due to during except far from following for from in in addition to in case of in front of in place of in spite of inside inside of instead of in to (into) like mid minus near near to next next to notwithstanding of off on on account of on behalf of on top of | on to (onto) opposite out of outside outside of owing to over past plus prior to regarding round save since than through throughout till times to toward under underneath until up upon with with regards to within without |
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