7th Class English Adjective, Articles, Prepositions, Conjunctions Introduction

    Introduction

Definition: A preposition is a word that relates a noun or a pronoun to another word in a sentence.  

• A total of eight people have been arrested by the CBI.
• The men at Money Matters allegedly acted as middlemen.
• The frauds were committed m the officers' own capacity.
• The arrests came after a CBI investigation that covered five cities and lasted over a year.
• The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog. In the above given sentences, underline words are prepositions.  

      The following is the list of common prepositions:

About                   above                   across                   after                      against

along                     among                  around                 at                            before 

behind                  below                   beneath               beside                  between   

by                           down                    during                   except                  for

from                      in                            in front of            inside                    instead

of                            into                        like                         near                       of        

off                          on                           onto                      on top of              out of

outside                 over                       past                       since                      through

to                            toward                 under                    underneath            until      

up                           upon                     with                         within                     without.