learning prepositions

[Matthew Wai]

I think you should exemplify how the understanding of adverbs and adjectives can help understand prepositions, but I am not a teacher.

 

[bebe heart]

Except: Every one in the class can leave, except for you, John.

For: I am learning English grammar for my Monday test.

From: I have received a letter from my best friend.

 

[emsr2d2]

Except: [STRIKE]Every one[/STRIKE] Everyone in the class can leave, except for you, John.

For: I am learning English grammar for my Monday test. :tick:

From: I have received a letter from my best friend. :tick:

See above.

Note that with the second, I would be more likely to use "... for my test on Monday" unless a "Monday test" is a weekly event.

 

[Matthew Wai]

Is it OK to say 'Everyone except you, John, in the class can leave.'?

 

[emsr2d2]

No, that's not natural. If you want to change the word order, you could say "Everyone in the class, except you, John, can leave".

 

[MikeNewYork]

Bebe, do you plan on going through every preposition in the dictionary?

 

[Rover_KE]

Blame me for suggesting this list in post #2.

Bebe heart, you seem to have got the idea now.

 

[bebe heart]

Bebe, do you plan on going through every preposition in the dictionary?

I thought I should. :lol:

 

[bebe heart]

Blame me for suggesting this list in post #2.

Bebe heart, you seem to have got the idea now.

No blame sir, In fact it helped me. Thank you.:lol:

 

[emsr2d2]

We can see that you are grasping preposition usage quite well. I think 5 pages is enough, though. You can continue to practise in your own time and carry on learning example sentences. If you find a preposition you really can't work out how to use, please start a new thread for just one preposition.

I am closing this thread.