Académique Documents
Professionnel Documents
Culture Documents
Also is a word used to link nouns, pronouns or phrase to other words within a sentence. Usually
short words and they are normally placed directly in front of nouns.
USES OF PREPOSITIONS
Prepositions used to indicate temporal spatial or logical relationship of its objects to the rest of a
sentence.
i. Preposition on; it can mean one during, Example; they arrived at on Monday.
ii. It can also mean by means of, Example; a car runs on petrol.
iii. It can also mean support on money, example; you went around the world on the money
your father gave you.
iv. It also means the sense of nearness, example; CRDB is on the river Maragaras.
v. It also means with, example; have you got any money on you?
INTO.
OF.
Examples;
iv. Origin.
Example; Rita is a girl of a good family.
v. It can mean date or time.
Example; he came on the 26th of March.
OVER
FROM
TO.
i. It can mean direction towards
Example; he has gone to Dodoma.
ii. It can mean the sense of touch.
Example; the two lovers danced cheek to cheek.
iii. It can mean and.
Example; add two to four.
iv. It can mean time.
Example; - it is five minutes to four.
v. It can mean in the position off.
Example;- Mara is to the north of Tanzania.
vi. It can mean ratio/proportional.
Example; - our chance of victory is ten to seven.
-Six is to three as ten is to five.