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Prepositions: importance and usage

Posted on March 20,2013 by englishniche

Prepositions are short words that usually come before nouns(sometimes also in front of gerund verbs). They never change their form/spelling.

Prepositions are extremely difficult to master and because there are so few rules for learning them, the best way is looking themup in an Advanced Dictionary,reading a lot, and memorizing useful phrases.

Prepositions are important because they work to connect various parts of a sentence.  Prepositions tell us where something is inrelation to something else or how things are related in space �in, on, to, with, over, under, onto, into, beside or where so/sth is going (to church). Others show physical connections or possession between nouns or pronouns and another word such as of, with, by. Some refer to relationships in time: while, during, after, until, before, since.

The big idea of this lesson is a type of language focus for the third term's English lesson chapter one with title "At School"  just focusing on six prepositions such as between, in front of, behind, on my right, on my left and next to in the instructional area to students of primary 3.