A glossary of phrases with prepositions [antikvár]

PREFACE "The hardest thing about English is the preposition," students have frequently wailed to me. After watching their struggles with the "little words" and correcting their speech and writing for more than a decade, I agree with them. Starting off with the "logical" or "locational" uses of prepositions makes matters deceptively simple: it is easy to learn the differences between "on the table," "in the table," "under the table," and "near the table." But what about "in time" and "on time," "in my opinion" and "on second thought," or "call up" and "call down" and "call on" and "call off"? They have to be learned as vocabulary, just like the words boy, girl, child, and man. In the process of learning English, you have been doing what all speakers do: you have been associating certain words with certain prepositions to express certain meanings. This glossary contains examples of such associations. It is a good list for you to consult and study because it is made up of phrases which students like you have found troublesome. A large number of the illustrative sentences are corrected sentences from students' writing. The glossary concentrates on phrases with these words: about, above, across, against, ahead, along, around, as, away, back, before, behind, below, by, down, for, forward, from, m, inside, into, like, of, off, on, out, outside, over, past, through, under, with, within, without, and Grammatically, those words are not always prepositions. They are often used as adverbs or other parts of speech. Sometimes they are called "par- iii