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A Sundayreminder
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 Englishand they have many functions but often indicate location such as such as in, on, at, above, into, near, next, behind, to etc.
‘With’ and ‘by’ are both prepositions
The cat sat <b>on </b>the mat.
The hill was <b>behind </b>us.
I liked being <b>near </b>to him.
The tree was <b>above </b>my head.
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They are usually placed in front of noun 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.”
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