List of Prepositions
This list of prepositions will help you understand what a preposition is. Be sure to listen to the preposition song! Quick refresher: Prepositions are words that show the relationship between a noun or a pronoun and some other word or element in the rest of the sentence.
Preposition List* Notice that this list of prepositions contains one word, two word, and three word prepositions. Sometimes, words act together to form one preposition. A aboard, about, above, across, after, against, ahead of, along, amid,
amidst, among, around, as, as far as, as of, aside from, at, athwart, atop
B barring, because of, before, behind, below, beneath, beside, besides,
between, beyond, but, by, by means of
C circa, concerning
D despite, down, during
E except, except for, excluding
F far from, following, for, from
I in, in accordance with, in addition to, in case of, in front of, in lieu of,
in place of, in spite of, including, inside, instead of, into
L like
M minus
N near, next to
O of, off, on, on account of, on behalf of, on top of, onto, opposite, out,
out of, outside, over
P past, plus, prior to
R regarding, regardless of
S save, since
T than, through, till, to, toward, towards
U under, underneath, unlike, until, up, upon
V versus, via
W with, with regard to, within, without
The Preposition SongThis little song is sung to the tune of "Yankee Doodle". above across after at around before behind below beside between by down during for from in inside onto of off on out through to under up with And that's the preposition song!
What Is a Preposition?Seeing a list of prepositions is great, but you also need to understand what prepositions are. * Remember that prepositions are words that show the relationship between a noun or a pronoun and some other word in the sentence. They are ALWAYS found in prepositional phrases. Prepositional phrases are groups of words that act as a single part of speech, so all of the words act together as either an adjective or an adverb. They always start with a preposition and end with a noun or pronoun. Here are some examples of prepositional phrases: at the movieup the tree around the block Notice that all three of these prepositional phrases begin with a preposition (at, up, around) and end with a noun (movie, tree, block).
Start Basic Sentence Diagramming!Sentence diagramming shows us how all of the parts of a sentence are related. If you are a visual person, diagramming is the best way to learn grammar. When diagrammed, prepositional phrases go underneath the word that they modify. The preposition goes on the slanted line, and the object of the preposition goes on a horizontal line coming off of the slanted line. Just take a look!  Here is an example sentence: My shoe fell into the pond. Into the pond starts with the preposition into and ends with the noun pond.The whole phrase is working together as an adverb modifying the verb fell. It's easy to see that because its diagram is branching off of fell. You can diagram, too! Learn step by step diagramming for prepositions and prepositional phrases.
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