When it comes to studying grammar and language, prepositions may be somewhat complicated for many students if we take into account that there are many, but the truth is that once we know how they are classified, it is easy to learn them. Let us know below the Prepositions: types, how they are classified and what function they fulfill.
Prepositions: types, how they are classified and what function they fulfill
Basically, prepositions are nothing more than words that serve as a link or union when forming sentences . They do not have gender or number so they do not change and we should not be thinking in masculine or feminine or if they are in the singular or in the plural.
As for the types of prepositions, we can say that there are the prepositions of time , which are used in temporary phrases , those of place, for locative phrases , but we also have the prepositional phrases that occur when more than one word forms the preposition.
We can only see what the prepositions are and some examples . We are going to do it from the aforementioned, that is, from the types of prepositions (counting on “normal” prepositions and those that are prepositional phrases.
Temporary prepositions
- to : “At 9 in the morning”
- before : A prepositional phrase. “See you before ten”
- from: “ From Monday to Sunday”
- within : A prepositional phrase. “In an hour”
- since : “Since you’ve been gone”
- since : A prepositional phrase. “We haven’t seen each other for years.”
- after : A prepositional phrase. “We’ll see you after 9.”
- during : “I’ll paint the house during the holidays.”
- in : «In summer I like to go to the beach».
- Until: “I won’t call you until after the summer.”
- for : «We have been for the night».
- about : “He said he would arrive around 5.”
after: “After the holidays the routine begins again.”
Locative prepositions:
- to : «He has come to the beach»
- to the right of : A prepositional phrase “It is on the right of that road.”
- To the left of : A prepositional phrase “It is to the left of your location.”
- next to : A prepositional phrase «We will travel to the side of your people».
- around : A prepositional phrase “We walked around that house.”
- via : A prepositional phrase “We have gone through rocky areas.”
- near : “It is near your house.”
- Against : “Don’t lean against the wall.”
- from : «I come from Madrid».
- under : A prepositional phrase “There is something under the bed.”
- in front of : A prepositional phrase “I did not see it and had it in front of the chair.
- behind: A prepositional phrase “It’s behind that building.”
- in: «We live in the city».
- above : A prepositional phrase “It is on the table.”
- in front of : A prepositional phrase «Live in front of my house»,
- between : «Live between Madrid and Barcelona».
- outside : “You are away from home.”
- towards : “We travel south.”
- next : “It is next to the entrance of the store.”
- far from : A prepositional phrase “He’s far from home.”
- by : “You have to go this way.”
- about : “We are standing at a considerable height.”
- after : “He hides behind the door.”
Other prepositions
In addition to those mentioned, we can find other propositions that are the following:
- in favor of
- in benefit of
- despite
- with
- between
- against
- thanks to
- for
- in order to
- according
- without
- on
