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A Preposition List
A Preposition List
Connect?
A list of prepositions contains fewer than 200 words. That’s not many considering
English contains at least a couple hundred thousand words. It’s amazing that
the list of all prepositions is so short considering they are used to demonstrate how
words and phrases connect in nearly every single sentence. In fact, most sentences
contain more than one connecting word. That means you’ll use words from
a prepositions list more often than you will nouns, verbs, and most parts of speech.
Now that you know how important these connecting words are, let’s take a look at
a preposition list and all of its functions including a prepositional phrase list.
It’s said that it’s grammatically incorrect to have a preposition end a sentence. This
is not always true. Though it does not follow the traditional rules of connecting a
subject to a noun or verb, it can be done when you use a casual tone. For your
papers and more formal writing, stick to keeping these words away from the end of
a sentence.
Though the above is not a complete prepositions list, it does cover many of the
more common words you’ll encounter. Reading ahead, you’ll find there are
numerous words that fall under a complete list of all prepositions. However, to get
there you will have to memorize and be able to differentiate between every single
one.
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2. A Double Preposition List
Now that you’ve seen the prepositions list above and know what a single
preposition (or connecting word) is, you can move on to double prepositions.
Basically, they are a combination of two simple connecting words. For
instance, onto, inside, and without are all examples of double connecting words.
These words are very similar to compound prepositions (which will be covered in
the next section), and they’re easy to mix up. That’s because compound connecting
words also contain two individual words which take on one meaning. But there are
some subtle, and more noticeable differences between double and
compound prepositions.
The most noticeable difference is that instead of forming their own individual
words (like compound connecting words do), double words combine into one.
Let’s take a look at some examples:
A List of Prepositions: Double Words
Insid
Amid Atop e Into Onto
Outsid
e Throughout Upon Within Without