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Which preposition is used to refer to a surface?
Which preposition is used to refer to a surface?
Which preposition is used to refer to a specific time of day?
Which preposition is used to refer to a specific time of day?
Which preposition is used to refer to a point itself?
Which preposition is used to refer to a point itself?
Which preposition is used to refer to an area or volume?
Which preposition is used to refer to an area or volume?
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Which preposition is used to refer to a spatial relationship?
Which preposition is used to refer to a spatial relationship?
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Study Notes
Prepositions of Direction
- Use "in" to refer to a general direction or a large area
- Use "into" to refer to movement from outside to inside
- Use "on" to refer to a surface or a linear movement
- Use "onto" to refer to movement from one surface to another
Prepositions of Time
- Use "in" to refer to parts of the day (e.g., morning, evening), months, years, and seasons
- Use "at" to refer to a specific time of day (e.g., 3 o'clock), noon, night, and midnight
- Use "on" to refer to specific days (e.g., Friday)
Prepositions of Place
- Use "in" to refer to the point itself (e.g., a city, a building)
- Use "at" to refer to the general vicinity (e.g., at the store)
- Use "on" to refer to a surface (e.g., on the wall)
- Use "inside" to refer to something contained (e.g., inside the house)
Prepositions of Location
- Use "in" to refer to an area or volume (e.g., in the forest)
- Use "at" to refer to a specific point (e.g., at the corner)
- Use "on" to refer to a surface (e.g., on the floor)
Prepositions of Spatial Relationships
- Use "above" to refer to something higher than something else
- Use "across" to refer to something on the opposite side
- Use "against" to refer to something in contact with something else
- Use "ahead of" to refer to something in front of something else
- Use "along" to refer to something next to something else
- Use "among" to refer to something in a group or collection
- Use "around" to refer to something surrounding something else
- Use "behind" to refer to something at the back of something else
- Use "below" to refer to something lower than something else
- Use "beneath" to refer to something directly underneath something else
- Use "beside" to refer to something next to something else
- Use "between" to refer to something in the middle of two things
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Test your knowledge of prepositions related to direction, time, and place. Learn how to use prepositions like 'in,' 'on,' 'at,' and 'into' correctly in sentences.