Take a look at the ten sentences below. You will notice that each one is missing a preposition. Choose which one is correct for each sentence.
Prepositions are used before nouns, noun phrases or pronouns, connecting them to other words.
'There time as University is now over.'
The word over can be used as in a number of ways as a preposition, adjective or adverb. Let's take a look at some of its more basic uses:
'This book was written ___ Charles Dickens.'
It's time to test your understanding of prepositions. Take a look at the ten sentences and choose the correct preposition.
Link: Test your Prepositions knowledge!
How good are you with prepositions? Let's find out! Take a look at the following ten sentences and choose the correct preposition to complete each sentence.
'The woman climed over the wall.'
It's about time that we took another look at some prepositions, isn't it? Here we have a list of all the major prepositions used in English. As prepositions can have more than one meaning it would be impossible to explain them all here.
There is a quiz for you to try at the bottom.