Grammar and Usage
An Introduction to Prepositions
Definition:
What are Prepositions?
prepositions are words that show the relationship between a noun or pronoun and another word.
For example: there is a box and some keys. so to show how these two are linked or what is their relation, we use prepositions.
The keys are in the box
The keys are in front of the box
The keys are behind the box
The keys are on the box
The keys are next to the box
The keys are under the box
Farid is in the class
Sara is in front of the class
Hamed is next to the car
the cat is under the car
the bird is on the car
Ali is in the car
the car is on the street, next to the tree and behind the truck
structure
Prepositions always take an object and so the noun or pronoun that follows the prepositions is the object of preposition and is called prepositional object.
Examples:Ali is friend with me
the bird is on the car
the car is in the garden
I am with Ali
we are under the tree
my house is next to your house .
We travel to Kabul tomorrow.
Sara buys a gift for her sister .
Examples:
in
I am in Afghanistan and I work in a bank.
Ali is in the house but I am out of the house.
the star is in the sky.
in front of
the park is in front of the hospital.
Hadi sits in front of Haroon and behind Farid.
Farid parks his car in front of his house.
behind
the sun is behind the cloud and the cloud is in front of the sun.
I walk behind you.
number two is behind the nuumber one.
on
a bird can walk on the water.
Mahmood sits on the chair. the chair is on the floor .
the car moves on the street.
next to
I want to be next to you in the class.
My house is next to the school and in front of park.
Afghanistan is next to pakistan.
under
We all live under one sky and on one earth.
the water moves under the bridge .
I wear a shirt under my coat.
with
I work with Ali in a bank.
he eats rice with vegetable. but I eat rice with bread.
I go to school with my friend.
out of
His phone is out of reach. He is out of country.
my father goes out of the house everyday.
I am now out of the class and in the house.
Grammar Exercise
Exercise:
Type in the blanks the proper preposition based on Farsi sentence
براساس جملات فارسی حرف اضافه درست را تایپ کنید- the bird is the tree and the tree is the garden.
- I am Mahmood the class.
- the hospital is the school and the park.
- I sit Hadi the class.
- my father is the house now. but he will be the house at night.
- Hamid parks his car his house, and not street.
- we love to sit the tree everyday.
Try the above exercise on your own first. see the answers only if you're unable to figure out the answers.
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Vocabulary and Phrases
Words Meanings:
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in
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in front of
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behind
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on
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next to
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under
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at
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after
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before
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out of
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in the middle of
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over
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with
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without
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from
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to
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