Top Useful Tips to Learn Prepositions Easily

Prepositions are one of the most interesting and easy to understand topics of the Engish Language. However, at times even advanced users make mistakes with the usage of prepositions. A single preposition can have multiple meanings in your language. For Example, if you try to find the meaning of ‘By’, you will be amazed by the different meanings it can portray. You will find later in the post. I am going to share Top Useful Tips to Learn Prepositions Easily.

Learn Prepositions Easily. Are you excited! Well, you should be as it can really make your language awesome.

Prepositions change the meaning of the sentence.

Question: What is a preposition?

There are two definitions which suit best.

• A preposition is a word which shows the relation of the sentence with a noun or pronoun.
• Some people say it shows the position of a noun or a pronoun in a sentence.

To understand these definitions, you need to have sound knowledge of Nouns, Noun Phrases, and pronouns. 

• I am going to school.
• My mother is in Apollo Hospital. in this sentence, the mother is a patient.
• My mother is at Apollo Hospital. In this sentence, the mother is visiting the hospital and she is not a patient.

I’m going to share some more sentences which can make you understand the different meanings prepositions can give to the sentence.

• Anita can meet me at 4 o’clock. 
• Sunil can meet me after 4 o’clock.
• Anita can meet me before 4 o’clock.

So, now, you can understand how a preposition can entirely modify the meaning fo the sentence. Therefore, you should not avoid the importance of these little words. They are called Prepositions.

In your native language, you may have one or two prepositions to convey the meaning, however, in the English language, there are multiple prepositions and convey different meanings.

• Sonali got married at noon
• Helena got married in the morning
• Sonali got married on Saturday
• Angelina got married in March
• Sonali got married in 2005
• Katrina got married at Easter

Top Useful Tips to Learn Prepositions Easily

Yes, we have rules to understand the usage of prepositions. However, below mentioned examples are proof that you can not master the prepositions or the English language with the help of rules. You need to learn the language for a continuous period in small amounts.

• What are you dreaming of?
• Why are you depending on him?
• Where do you belong to?

The Best Way to Learn English is like any other language. The way is hearing and mimicking. Listen to the speakers in mobies, news, TV Serials, and keep copying their dialogues again and again.

Every English Learner should do the same.

The best way not to make mistakes with prepositions is to use them in your real-life sentences. 

The importance of learning fixed expressions and collocations (words that go together) is necessary and apparent when students want to take proficiency exams, in particular, IELTS,  TOEIC or Cambridge ESOL Examinations.

In this example, knowing the related/dependent preposition is the only way to answer the question.

1. My aunt is ______from pneumonia

a. enduring
b. bearing
c. suffering

2. She was ______on learning to surf

a. enthusiastic
b. keen
c. eager

Learning prepositions as part of phrases and fixed expressions will you to improve your proficiency and therefore lead to a better score in your English exams. So, try to notice the usage of Prepositions in the newspaper and withing text in your study books as well.

Let me summarise, that like any other topic of the English language if you are trying to learn Prepositions separately, you may tend to take time and make mistakes. So, I advise you to learn them with phrases and whole sentences.

Learners should not directly try to translate prepositions from their first language, but learn prepositions in conjunction with the surrounding words, forming set expressions.

Now Study All Prepostions with Easy to understand meanings and Examples.

Sr.	Preposition	Frequency	Possible Roles in a Sentence
1	of	5220	(preposition)
2	to	4951	(preposition, adverb)
3	in	2822	(preposition, adverb)
4	for	1752	(preposition, conjunction)
5	on	1087	(preposition, adverb, adjective)
6	with	1062	(preposition)
7	by	706	(preposition, adverb)
8	but	626	(conjunction, preposition, adverb)
9	at	624	(preposition)
10	from	622	(preposition)
11	about	451	(preposition, adverb, adjective)
12	like	324	(preposition, verb, conjunction)
13	into	301	(preposition)
14	up	296	(adverb, preposition, adjective)
15	out	294	(adverb, preposition, adjective)
16	through	235	(preposition, adverb, adjective)
17	over	170	(preposition, adjective, noun)
18	before	141	(preposition, adverb, conjunction)
19	between	137	(preposition, adverb)
20	after	110	(preposition, adjective, adverb)
21	since	107	(preposition, adverb, conjunction)
22	during	103	(preposition)
23	around	101	(adverb, preposition)
24	down	94	(adverb, preposition, adjective)
25	without	89	(preposition, adverb, conjunction)
26	off	74	(adverb, preposition, adjective)
27	under	70	(preposition, adverb, adjective)
28	including	58	(preposition)
29	until	54	(preposition)
30	against	46	(preposition)
31	within	46	(preposition, adverb)
32	along	45	(preposition, adverb)
33	above	40	(adverb, preposition, adjective)
34	following	39	(preposition, noun, adjective)
35	among	37	(preposition)
36	across	36	(preposition, adverb, adjective)
37	throughout	27	(preposition)
38	behind	22	(preposition, adverb, adjective)
39	beyond	20	(preposition, noun)
40	despite	17	(preposition)
41	towards	16	(preposition)
42	upon	15	(preposition)
43	plus	14	(preposition, adjective, noun)
44	near	13	(adverb, preposition, adjective)
45	except	6	(preposition, conjunction, idiom)
46	concerning	3	(preposition)

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Some more definitions of Preposition:

• Prepositions are the words that show the relationship between a noun or a pronoun and some other word or element in the rest of the sentence.

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