[Jill Malcolm]

 

Prepositions are usually used in front of nouns or pronouns and they indicate the relationship between the noun or pronoun and other words in a sentence.

 

There are about 150 prepositions in English and they have many functions but often indicate location, such as in, on, at, above, into, near, next, behind, to etc.

‘With’ and ‘by’ are both prepositions

 

The cat sat on the mat.

the dog with green eyes

The hill was behind us.

I liked being near to him.

The tree was above my head.

 

They are usually placed in front of nouns or pronouns. The old rule was that you did not use them at the end of a sentence. That went out of fashion about the time Winston Churchill made his famous utterance: “This is the kind of nonsense up with which I will not put.”