Presentation for Business English

1. Preposition
Professor Everlene Johnson
For English 1010

2. What does Preposition mean?
A preposition is a part of speech that shows a relationship between
two things.
• Location (on, under, in)
• Timing (before, after, during)
• Direction (from, toward, to)
• Prepositions don't stand alone, they work in groups of words that we call
prepositional phrases

3. Where are they located?
• They had went to bed before sundown
• The prepositional is to and before sundown
• The preposition is first and third words of the sentence “to” and
“before”.
• What did they do?
• …..went to bed before sundown

4. Prepositions
• The student that sits behind the counter will be late
• The prepositional phrase: Behind the counter
• The preposition: behind
• What student? That sits behind the counter

5. In/on for time
• On Monday, I have to go to work.
• She is on the phone with her mom.
• We use “on” for days of the week and dates for months.

6. In/on for time
• She was in the room yesterday.
• Henry Might not be in there today.
• You can use “in” with months but without specific dates.
• We can use “in” for specific seasons and before years without dates.

7. In/on for place
• Tasha did her hair in the bathroom.
• Sally went in her bedroom to study.
• “In means some place that’s “Inside”
• Where did Sally go?
• “In her bedroom”
• Many people do their hair?
• “In the bathroom”

8. In/on for place
• Sheila was on the couch when her boyfriend came home.
• Mike was talking on the phone with his mom.
• Where was Sheila?
• “on the couch”
• What was Mike doing?
• “talking on the phone”

9. Preposition in common Expressions
List of some common Preposition

10. What do you know about Preposition?
• Preposition are words that show the relationship
between a noun or pronoun and some other word
or element in the rest of the sentence.
• The word itself suggests (pre meaning “before”)
• Preposition is a word in a position before its object
• The word preposition comes from the idea of
being positioned before.
• A prepositional phrase will function as
an adjective or adverb. As an adjective, the
prepositional phrase will answer the
question Which one?
• As an adverb, a prepositional phrase will answer
questions such as How? When? or Where?
• Sometimes a noun within the prepositional phrase
seems the logical subject of a verb
• You will never find a subject in a prepositional
phrase

11. Preposition
• Can you find the…..

12. Preposition (cont.)

13. Preposition Questions and Answers

14. Preposition

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