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USO DE LAS PREPOSICIONES Las preposiciones pueden realizar distintas funciones: - Servir de enlace entre dos palabras o distintos elementos en la oracin: I'll see you at five o'clock / Te ver a las cinco - Pueden acompaar a un verbo sirviendo de enlace a su complemento. En este caso, pueden no alterar el significado del verbo o alterarlo con lo que constituyen una palabra distinta. To look / Mirar (no altera el significado del verbo) To look after / Cuidar de (se altera el significado del verbo) - Cuando ponemos un verbo despus de una preposicin, en ingls normalmente se utiliza la forma ' ing' y no el infinitivo. You shouldnt go to India without visiting the Taj Mahal. No deberas ir a la India sin visitar el Taj Mahal. Im interested in studying psychology. / Estoy interesado en estudiar psicologa. Las principales preposiciones en ingls son: about after at behind beneath between by except from alrededor de, sobre detrs de, despus de en, junto a detrs de debajo de entre (dos o ms) por, junto a excepto de, desde above among before below beside but down for in por encima de entre (tres o ms) antes de, delante de debajo de junto a excepto, pero hacia abajo para, por, durante, desde hace en, dentro de
into near off over through till = until under upon without
en, adentro cerca de de (alejndose), fuera de por encima de, al otro lado a travs de hasta por debajo de (poniendo) sobre, encima sin
como, igual a like de of en, sobre on desde since throughout por todo a, hasta, hacia to hacia arriba up con with
POSICIN DE LAS PREPOSICIONES Generalmente, se colocan delante del sustantivo o del pronombre, excepto en los siguientes casos: a.) Con el pronombre relativo, cuando va seguido de preposicin, sta puede colocarse en la posicin final. The girls I study with / Las muchachas con las que estudio (en lugar de: The girls with whom I study) b.) En frases interrogativas cuando empiezan por un pronombre interrogativo: Who were you speaking to? / con quin estabas hablando? (en lugar de: To whom were you speaking?) LA PREPOSICIN Y LA CONTRACCIN La contraccin espaola, es decir, la fusin de una preposicin con el artculo definido (al, del) no existen en ingls. Se traducen siempre por la preposicin seguida del artculo definido y separado de ella (al = a el) (del = de el): Tell it to the chairman / Dgaselo al presidente
Prepositions Definition: Prepositions are a class of words that indicate relationships between nouns, pronouns and other words in a sentence. Most often they come before a noun. They never change their form, regardless of the case, gender etc. of the word they are referring to. Some common prepositions are: about above across after against along among around at before behind below beneath beside between beyond but
by despite down during except for from in inside into like near of off on onto out
outside over past since through throughout till to toward under underneath until up upon with within without.
A preposition usually indicates the temporal, spatial or logical relationship of its object to the rest of the sentence. For example:
The book is on the table. The book is beside the table. She read the book during class.
In each of the preceding sentences, a preposition locates the noun "book" in space or in time. Prepositions are classified as simple or compound. Simple prepositions Simple prepositions are single word prepositions. These are all showed above. For example:
Compound prepositions Compound prepositions are more than one word. in between and because of are prepositions made up of two words - in front of, on behalf of are prepositions made up of three words. For example:
The book is in between War and Peace and The Lord of the Rings. The book is in front of the clock.
Examples:
The children climbed the mountain without fear. There was rejoicing throughout the land when the government was defeated. The spider crawled slowly along the banister.
The following table contains rules for some of the most frequently used prepositions in English:
Usage
Example
on
days of the week months / seasons time of day year after a certain period of time (when?) for night for weekend a certain point of time (when?) from a certain point of time (past till now) over a certain period of time (past till now) a certain time in the past earlier than a certain point of time telling the time telling the time marking the beginning and end of a period of time in the sense of how long something is going to last in the sense of at the latest up to a certain time
in
at
since
since 1980
for 2 years 2 years ago before 2004 ten to six (5:50) ten past six (6:10) from Monday to/till Friday He is on holiday until Friday. I will be back by 6 oclock. By 11 o'clock, I had read
till / until
by
English
Usage
in
Usage room, building, street, town, country book, paper etc. car, taxi picture, world meaning next to, by an object for table for events place where you are to do something typical (watch a film, study, work) attached for a place with a river being on a surface for a certain side (left, right) for a floor in a house for public transport for television, radio left or right of somebody or something on the ground, lower than (or covered by) something else lower than something else but above ground covered by something else
Example in the kitchen, in London in the book in the car, in a taxi in the picture, in the world
at
at the door, at the station at the table at a concert, at the party at the cinema, at school, at work
on
the picture on the wall London lies on the Thames. on the table on the left on the first floor on the bus, on a plane on TV, on the radio Jane is standing by / next to / beside the car.
under
below over
the fish are below the surface put a jacket over your shirt
English
Usage meaning more than getting to the other side (also across) overcoming an obstacle higher than something else, but not directly over it getting to the other side (also over) getting to the other side something with limits on top, bottom and the sides movement to person or building movement to a place or country for bed enter a room / a building movement in the direction of something (but not directly to it) movement to the top of something in the sense of where from
Example over 16 years of age walk over the bridge climb over the wall
above
across
through
to
into
towards
onto
from