Prepositions can be used as single-words or as a group of words.
The most common single-word prepositions are:
- about
Do you know anything about Mike?
- above
She rented a flat above the market.
- after
Let’s go to the cinema after work.
We all get confused when we think about prepositions. This lesson will help you to understand the difference between prepositions and adverbs.
A preposition is a word used to link nouns, pronouns or phrases to other words within a sentence.
An adverb is a word that describes a verb and it is usually used for places, time, circumstance, manner, cause and so on.
IMPORTANT: The most important thing we have to remember is that a preposition requires an object, while an adverb does not.
There are several words that are either prepositions or adverbs:
As we already know, a preposition is a word used to link nouns, pronouns or phrases to other words within a sentence. Prepositions are words like: about, at, in, on, for, from, opposite etc. that can appear as single-words or pair of words and they express time, place, movement.
Conjunctions are also connecting words, but they can do much more than a preposition because they can connect verbs together and even more, they can connect two sentences together.
There are three types of conjunctions:
- coordinating conjunctions: for, and, but, or, yet, so.
A. Defining relative clauses
Defining relative clauses are used to give information about someone or something (a noun) – information is essential to understand what or who is being referred to.
The noun + relative pronoun + the defining relative clause.
The relative pronouns are: who, that, which, whose, whom.
They introduce a defining relative clause this way:
