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Prepositions!

School House Rock's Grammar Rock Preposition video!  Check it out on You Tube! here

 

Grammar Bytes (www.chompchomp.com) can help clear up any confusion you may have about what prepositions do and what they look like!  Click the link below. 

http://www.chompchomp.com/terms/preposition.htm

 

So... what do prepositions do anyway??  They show location.  This can be physical location or location in time.

 

 

*Remember that but is most often used as a coordinating conjunction.  When it is used as a preposition, it can be replaced with except and it will make sense.

 

* Remember that some prepositions also function as subordinate conjunctions.  These are after, as, before, since, and until.  A subordinate conjunction will have both a subject and a verb following it, forming a subordinate clause.

 

Prepositional phrases always end with a noun (the object of the preposition). 

For example, my book was on the table.  On the table is the prepositional phrase.  It is telling us the physical location of the book.  The prepositional phrase ends with a noun, table, which is the object of the preposition.

 

"The" List

about
above
according to
across
after
against
along
along with
among
apart from
around
as
as for
at
because of
before
behind
below
beneath
beside
between
beyond
but*
by
by means of		 concerning
despite
down
during
except
except for
excepting
for
from
in
in addition to
in back of
in case of
in front of
in place of
inside
in spite of
instead of
into
like
near
next
of
off
on		 onto
on top of
out
out of
outside
over
past
regarding
round
since
through
throughout
till
to
toward
under
underneath
unlike
until
up
upon
up to
with
within
without


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