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List of Common Prepositions in English
Let’s have a look at list of preposition words used to express spatial or temporal relations between two other nearby word namely a noun or a pronoun.
| Preposition Word | Sentence Example |
| About | When I go to a meeting, I have to decide ahead of time what to bring, and I’m never sure about the weather or how formal people will be. |
| Above | In a low-pressure system the warm front is the first to pass over. This occurs when warm air meets cold air and the warm air rises above it. |
| Across | Unlike other demonstrations across the country, these were trouble-free, with students behaving themselves. |
| After | Eventually, Hammond had to deliver the after-dinner speech, which didn’t please the crowds. |
| Against | He gathered her against him, felt that she was as cold as ice as well, and held on to her tightly. |
| Along | The saltwater helps your doctor remove the fat, and is suctioned out along with the fat. |
| Among | Though it were likely that, among many that were innocent, some should perish that were innocent. |
| Around | The result is an effort that encompasses a multitude of styles, from funk and soul to stirring ballads constructed around strong melodies. |
| At | The teacher looked at what they were looking at and laughing at and told them to hush up so he could start class. |
| Before | When his turn came to speak, Jacob pushed his feet as far as he could under his desk before he started. |
| Behind | The air behind a warm front is generally warmer and moister than the air ahead of it. |
| Below | The temperature plummeted to below zero, enough to make one’s teeth chatter! |
| Beneath | This eliminates the pipe and clamps beneath the driver’s seat used ever since the teams abandoned dual water radiators. |
| Besides | I want a strong man to walk beside me at the water’s edge as the sun sets into the ocean. |
| Between | As someone who has lived in both, I can assure you that there is a world of difference between the two conditions. |
| By | The formal approach is met by a checkerboard garden of green boxwood and gray artemisia. |
| Down | She looked haughty and stuck-up, her face disdainful as she looked down at me. |
| During | The match was abandoned when rain washed out a play during the lunch interval. |
| Except | All steps and marchings executed from a halt, except the right step, begin with the left foot. |
| For | The real kicker for this cover is its silvery, holographic pattern of a butterfly’s wing as a background to the larger white silhouette. |
| From | Depleted uranium is an extremely dense substance derived from enriched uranium. |
| In | Many birds like to feed in open areas but need protective cover to roost, nest, and raise their young. |
| Inside | I packed a small suitcase, throwing my clothes inside it without any manner of care. |
| Instead of | More and more birds are losing chicks and returning to nest the following year instead of skipping a year. |
| Into | They may outlive their friends who can give insights into their achievements and character. |
| Like | He looked over at her, her eyes like hard chips of granite, sparkling with the light from the fire but remaining hard. |
| Near | Her plan is based on the underlying assumption that the economy will improve in the near future. |
| Of | Adie, of course, is a bit of a trooper, experienced in making the best of difficult situations. |
| Off | The front part is used for carving the lines and the back end for scratching off whole areas. |
| On | The evolution of popular music and artists appearing in film began when silent films depended on piano playing for audio appeal. |
| Onto | He had told us he felt nervous about the performance, but he seemed perfectly composed when he walked onto the stage. |
| On top of | The design also has two pinions on top of the grader’s saddle for superior support. |
| Out of | His attorney has been hunting for a loophole that would allow him to get out of the deal. |
| Outside | She put on her coat, hat, and gloves, and then she went outside. |
| Over | The aircraft then flies over its customers, airdrops its supplies, and returns empty to the source takeoff site for another mission. |
| Past | He came at the bull with a knife after having had a history of violence against other bulls and committing homicide in the past. |
| Since | The store has lost a significant amount of business since the factory closed. |
| Through | She picks me up on her motorbike, and we chat as we zoom through the terrible Athens traffic. |
| To | But on my drive back uptown I saw that on every block there seemed to be a homeless person. |
| Toward | His months spent researching prison life gave him greater empathy towards convicts. |
| Under | This slave stood tall, so tall, healthy and strong, skin bronzed beautifully under the hot sun. |
| Underneath | Begin the series by coming on to all fours with the wrists underneath the shoulders and the knees underneath the hips. |
| Until | Everyone thought she was well until a sudden relapse sent her back to the hospital. |
| Up | The prosecuting counsel held up two vicious-looking, cut-throat razors for everyone in a packed Kingston Magistrates’ court to see. |
| Upon | That night, the carpetmaker closed his shop, piled his most precious wares upon a single camel, and left Baghdad. |
| With | The migrants got along under the colonial regimes, dealing with powers as they found them. |
| Within | Many of these towns were survivors of earlier Etruscan, Umbrian and Roman towns that had existed within the Roman Empire. |
| Without | These toys get an educational message across without the annoying upbeat veneer most kids have come to expect from edutainment toys. |
Make sure you carefully use these words to define the position of an object. Save this list for your future reference and refer to it whenever you have a confusion related to common preposition words.
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