A word governing and usually preceding, a noun or pronouns and expressing a relation to

another word or element in the clause, she arrived after dinner

Also is a word used to link nouns, pronouns or phrase to other words within a sentence. Usually
short words and they are normally placed directly in front of nouns.

USES OF PREPOSITIONS

Prepositions used to indicate temporal spatial or logical relationship of its objects to the rest of a
sentence.

Preposition is used to indicate time.

SPECIAL USES OF PREPOSITION

i. Preposition on; it can mean one during, Example; they arrived at on Monday.
ii. It can also mean by means of, Example; a car runs on petrol.
iii. It can also mean support on money, example; you went around the world on the money
your father gave you.
iv. It also means the sense of nearness, example; CRDB is on the river Maragaras.
v. It also means with, example; have you got any money on you?

INTO.

It can be used to mean:-

i. Motion, example; he jumped into a car.

ii. To change, example; she developed into a beautiful women.
iii. The sense of time, example; you should not work so all into into the night.
iv. To mean division, example; 4 into 8 goes twice.

OF.

i. It can mean belonging to.

Examples;

the color of dress is red.

This is the house of my friend.
 This house is made by bricks.
ii. It can mean containing, example; it is a bag of tomatoes.
iii. It can mean quality,
Examples; give me two legs of meat.
The members of the team are here.

iv. Origin.
Example; Rita is a girl of a good family.
v. It can mean date or time.
Example; he came on the 26th of March.

OVER

i. It can mean the sense of demonstration.

Examples; he ruled over a rubbish kingdom.

ii. It can mean more than.

Example; Mwajuma is over 35 years old.
iii. It can mean during or in the course.
Example; we had two meeting over dinner.
iv. It can mean beyond.
Example; he spent over fifth thousand shillings for juice only.

FROM

i. It can mean source or origin.

ii. Example; many evils flows from here.
iii. It can mean because or as a result of.
Example; she is suffering from fever.
He dies from loss of blood.
iv. It can mean separation.
Example; mangoes fells from the tree.
v. It can mean based on or using or out off.
Example; breads are made from flowers.
vi. Can mean as judging by or considering.
Example; from his appearance he looked old.

TO.
 i. It can mean direction towards
Example; he has gone to Dodoma.
ii. It can mean the sense of touch.
Example; the two lovers danced cheek to cheek.
iii. It can mean and.
Example; add two to four.
iv. It can mean time.
Example; - it is five minutes to four.
v. It can mean in the position off.
Example;- Mara is to the north of Tanzania.
vi. It can mean ratio/proportional.
Example; - our chance of victory is ten to seven.
-Six is to three as ten is to five.

Here are some general rules regarding prepositions.

It is permissible to end a sentence with a preposition.

A preposition is followed by a noun.
A preposition is never followed by a verb
It is permissible to begin a sentence with a preposition or a preposition phrase.
A prepositional phrase always begins with a preposition and ends with a noun or pronoun
called the object of the preposition.
A verb can never be a part of a prepositional phrase.
The subject of the sentence can never be a part of prepositional phrase(Steven
P.Wickstrom website)
 REFERENCE

Steven P.Wickstrom website.

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