List of Prepositions

List of preppsitions:

aboard
about

considering

past

despite

per

down

plus

during

regarding

except

excepting

excluding

above

across

after

against

along

amid

among

following

anti

for

around

from

as

in

at

inside

before

into

behind

like

below

minus

beneath

beside

besides

between

beyond

but

by

concerning

round

save
since

than

through

to

toward

towards

under

underneath

unlike

until

near

up

of

upon

off

versus

on

via

onto

with

opposite

within

outside

without

over

Wal-Mart is probably the most successful US-based general goods retailer in the world. Yet, after
nearly a decade of trying, it pulled out of Germany. It realised that its formula for success - low
prices and a wide choice of goods - did not work in markets with their own discount chains and
shoppers with different habits. 'It is a good, important lesson,' says Beth Keck, a spokeswoman
for Wal-Mart. Among other things, Wal-Mart has learned to deal with different corporate cultures
with more sensitivity. In Germany, it stopped requiring sales clerks to smile at customers,
because some male shoppers interpreted this as flirting. It also stopped requiring staff members to
sing the Wal-Martchant every morning. 'People found these things strange. Germans just don't
behave that way,' says Hans-Martin Porschmann, the secretary of the Verdi union, which represents
5,000 Wal-Mart employees. In addition, Wal-Mart 'didn't want to have anything to do with unions,' he
says. 'They didn't understand that in Germany, companies and unions are closely connected.'
Wal-Mart's German experience also taught it to use local management. The company initially
installed American executives, who had little feel for what German consumers wanted. 'They tried to
sell packaged meat, when Germans like to buy meat from the butcher,' says Mr Porschmann. A
customer, Roland Kogel, 54, says he never bought groceries at Wal-Mart because food is
cheaper at German discount chains. He also did not visit the store often because it was on
the edge of town and he does not own a car. Finally, Wal-Mart also learned to care less whether its
foreign 55 stores carry the namederived from its founder, Sam Walton, as the German Wal-Marts
did. Seventy per cent of Wal-Mart's international sales come from outlets with names like Asda in
Britain, Seiyu in Japan or Bompreco in Brazil.

Examples
Should /Could / Would