PREPOSITIONS
Everything has a place or a position in relationship to everything else. Prepositions are words or phrases that help show where something is, or bring out some relationship between nouns or noun-substitutes (pronouns, gerunds, etc. ) They come before the noun or pronoun.
Often we have difficulty choosing the correct preposition to use after certain words. The following list may be helpful.-
| According to | Disagree with | Part from (somebody) |
| Afflict with | Disappointed in (something) | Part with (something) |
| Agree to (something) | Disappointed with (somebody) | Prevail on |
| Agree with (somebody) | Disgusted at (something) | Protest against |
| Aim at | Disgusted with (somebody) | Pursuit of |
| Angry with | Dislike for | Recoil from |
| Ashamed of | Divide among (many) | Regard for |
| Attack on | Divide between (two) | Rely on |
| Blame for | Equal to | Similar to |
| Change for (something) | Filled with | Suffer from |
| Change with (somebody) | Full of | Tired of (something) |
| Comment on | Good for | Tired with (action) |
| Complain of | Guilty of | Thirst for (or after) |
| Confer with | Indignant at (something) | Vexed at (something) |
| Conscious of | Indignant with (somebody) | Vexed with (somebody) |
| Defiance of | Inspired by | Victim of |
| Despair of | Interfere with | Wait for (person, thing) |
| Die of | Invasion of | Wait upon (somebody) |
| Differ from (opinion) | Meddle with | Write about (something) |
| Differ with (somebody) | Opposite to | Write to (somebody) |
Todo ocupa un lugar o posición con relación a las demás cosas. Las preposiciones son palabras que nos ayudan a ver donde se encuentra algo, o bien indican la relación que existe entre nombres, pronombres, etc. Anteceden al nombre o pronombre. Dicho de otro modo, son partículas que sirven para enlazar las palabras unas con otras.
En muchos casos no estamos seguros de que preposición usar antes o después de una palabra determinada. A continuación damos una lista que puede ser de utilidad.
