Prepositions

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PREPOSITIONS

“The plane flew above the cloud, behind the cloud, around the cloud, below
the cloud, beneath the cloud, beside the cloud, beyond the cloud, into the
cloud, near the cloud, outside the cloud, over the cloud, past the cloud,
through the cloud, toward the cloud, under the cloud, and finally dived
underneath the cloud.”

A preposition is a word that shows the relationship between two things. In the example above,
the prepositions show the relationships between a plane and a cloud. Below is a list of most
common prepositions:
about beside inside to
above besides like toward
across between near under
after beyond of underneath
against by off until
along despite on up
among down out with
around during outside within
at except over without
before for past
behind from since
below in through
beneath into throughout

Some prepositions consist of more than one word. Here is a list of the most common multiword
prepositions:


along with in place of
because of in spite of
Due to instead of
except for on account of
in addition to out of
in case of up to
in front of with the exception of