DEPENDENT

PREPOSITIONS
PROFESSIONAL ENGLISH II

JUDIT SARAI SARMIENTO PÁRRAGA

5th WEEK – SECOND UNIIT
 PURPOSE

 To learn depend prepositions and to use them accurately.

El primer encuentro
Es trascendental
 Why are dependent prepositions important?

 Prepositions re hard to guess in a foreign language. You just have to remember

how to use them. In English, some verbs prefer particular prepositions ( without
any logical connection), and we call them dependent.

 Dependent prepositions are those ones which belongs to verbs, adjectives or

nouns. They don’t form a new phrase, and they are often not translated into
other languages or used differently in them.
 For example:

Do you say:

We are arriving in Amsterdam or We are arriving to Amsterdam?

She asked a coffee or She asked for a coffee?

 Can be confusing, right? Don’t jump to making your decision based on how the
sentence is said in your own language.
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