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Welcome to this tutorial.

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Today we're going to talk about prepositions overview

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a proposition is usually a short word used to link nouns pronouns or phrases to other words within the

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sentence.

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Have a look at the example over here if I'm not mistaken her birthday is in May.

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The preposition in is used in the sentence to link the noun me to birthday her birthday

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nodes that prepositions do not change their form.

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Have a look at the example over here I want.

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Want to go where to the movies.

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Meaning that I had a desire to go to the movies now.

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Prepositions can consist of one two or more words.

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Have a look at the examples below.

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Josh went to the club instead of studying for his exam there was a huge traffic in front of us

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now prepositions can be divided into the following categories a prepositions a please state the position

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or location of one thing with another.

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Have a look at the example below.

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Kate works at Starbucks the preposition at tells us where Kate works

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B prepositions of time denotes specific time periods.

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For example we usually go to our relatives at Christmas.

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Christmas is a specific time period.

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An act is used to denote this time period

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see prepositions of direction or motion indicate movement from one place to the other since the example

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below.

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There is a great pub across the street.

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The preposition a Cross tells us where the pub is and how to get there D.

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Prepositions of manner express the manner in which something is done as in the example below.

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You can't achieve success by doing nothing.

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The preposition by expresses the manner in which success is achieved and it's not by doing nothing.

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E prepositions of cause purpose and reason indicate why what for or because of what something happens.

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Have a look at the example below she couldn't attend the meeting due to some family issues.

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Now the prepositions due to tell us why she couldn't attend the meeting.