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1. He was constantly ____ (urge) her to go up to the Marsh ranch, ____ (insist) that his
father was anxious to have them confirm the news in person.
2. We _____ many major problems while working on this project (had).
3. Japanese _____ one of the most popular courses at the university since the Asian studies
program was established (become).
4. The film ____ for ten minutes yet, but there's a commercial break already (not run).
5. Why has Lisa _____ her English?(not practise)
6. Babar ____ Rana Sanga at Kanwaha (defeat).
7. When my dad reached home, I ____ (always do) my homework.
8. Men ________ (never manage) to abolish wars up to now, but may be they _____ (find) a
way in the future.
9. When Mr. Mukerji _____ (come) to school in 1995, Mr. Anand ____ (already teach)
there for five years.
10. We arrived at work in the morning and found that somebody _____ (break) into the office
during the night. So, we ____ (call) the police.
11. Hurry up! The programme _______start(about to)
12. She has bought some cloth. She _____ herself a blouse (will make/ is going to make)
13. I am going to_____ (be study) and he is going to_____ dinner (be make).
14. Bob's going on a world tour next year. By December, he ____ six countries.(visit)
15. Make sure youre quiet when you get up tomorrow. The kids will still ______(sleep) in
their bed.
16. Two young athletes _____ (work out) for hours by the time one of them finally gives
up.
17. They ______ (arrange) a time to meet, but both of them forgot about it.
18. I ______ (think) that I was an only child, but I recently discovered that I have a
sister.
19. Nicklen _____ (grow) up on an island in Northern Canada, where he _____ (learn) all
about the outdoors from his Inuit neighbors.
20. How many friends have you _____ (make) since you started studying here?
Prepositions
1. aboard
2. On board of; onto or into a ship, boat, train, plane.
We all went aboard the ship.
3. about
1. above
1. abreast
2. abroad
3. absent (law)
4. across
cross (archaic)
6. after
7. against
8. along
9. alongside
10.amid
11. among
13.apud (formal)
14.around
15.as
16.astride
17.at
@ (abbreviation)
18.atop, ontop
19.bar
20.before
B4 (abbreviation)
21.behind
22.below
23.beneath
24.beside
25.besides
26.between
27.beyond
28.but
29.by
30.chez (rare)
31.circa
32.come
dehors (law)
33.despite
spite (abbreviation)
34.down
35.during
36.except
37.for
4 (abbreviation)
38.from
39.in
40.inside
41.into
42.less
43.like
44.minus
45.near
anear (archaic)
48.off
49.on
50.onto
51.opposite
52.out
53.outside
54.over
o'er (poetic)
55.pace (formal)
56.past
57.per
61.qua (formal)
63.sans (formal)
64.save
sauf (archaic)
65.short
66.since
sithence (archaic)
67.than
68.through
thru (abbreviation)
69.throughout
thruout (abbreviation)
70.to
2 (abbreviation)
71.toward, towards
72.under
73.underneath
74.unlike
75.until
76.up
77.upon
78.upside
79.versus
vs., v. (abbreviations)
80.via
81.vice (formal)
82.vis--vis (formal)
83.with
w/, cc(abbreviations)
84.within
w/i (abbreviation)
85.without
w/o (abbreviation)
86.worth
Multiple words[edit]
Two words[edit]
1. according to
2. adjacent to
3. ahead of
4. apart from
5. as for
6. as of
7. as per
8. as regards
9. aside from
10.astern of
11. back to
12.because of
13.close to
14.due to
15.except for
16.far from
17.inside of
18.instead of
19.left of
20.near to
21.next to
22.opposite of
23.opposite to
24.out from
25.out of
26.outside of
27.owing to
28.prior to
29.pursuant to
30.rather than
31.regardless of
32.right of
33.subsequent to
34.such as
35.thanks to
36.up to
Three words[edit]
2. as opposed to
3. as soon as
4. as well as
English has many idiomatic expressions that act as prepositions that can be analyzed as a
preposition followed by a noun (sometimes preceded by the definite or, occasionally, indefinite
1. at the behest of
2. by means of
3. by virtue of
5. in accordance with
6. in addition to
7. in case of
8. in front of
9. in lieu of
10.in order to
11. in place of
12.in point of
13.in spite of
14.on account of
15.on behalf of
16.on top of
18.with respect to
19.with a view to
Archaic or dialectal[edit]
2. abeam (nautical)
5. ajax (Polari)
6. alongst
7. aloof
10.atop, ontop
11. behither
12.ben (dialectal)
16.emforth
or
23.furth (Scotland)
24.gainward
26.inmid, inmiddes
27.mang (Devon)
28.mauger, maugre
32.outwith (dialectal)
34.quoad (formal)
37.uptill
Postpositions[edit]
1. ago
2. apart
3. aside
aslant (archaic)
4. away
5. hence
6. notwithstanding (also prepositional)
7. on
9. through
10.withal (archaic)
1. Prepositions of Direction
4. He walks along the road (on the road) and she walks along the bank of the river.
6. One must not go against the law of the country. (In the contravention of)
7. My best friend lives across the river. (On the opposite side of)
2. Prepositions of place/position:
At, in, on, above, below, over, under, between, among, amongst, amid, amidst, before, behind
1. He lives at Samstipur.
3. I live in Kolkatta.
7. He is above thirty.
15. between the boys( each boy and the next) or the girls (noun plural) / between these boys
20- There does not seem much difference between the three of them.
21. The chief Minister distributed the blankets among the poor.
23. Among for consonant sound and amongst for vowel sound
Raghu is sitting amid his friends but kishore is sitting amidst us.
3. Preposition of Time:
at, on, for, since, before, after, within, in, till, by, during, from
1. He came here at 8 o clock. (Time) at dawn, at day, at break, at sunrise, at noon, at sunset, at
night, at midnight
2. on day or date
following evening
On the evening of May the first but in is used in the morning, in the evening
10. you left London after your result. (past tense point of time)
16. You are to stay in bed until / tlll next Monday. (Point of time)
18. John will have reached America by next Tuesday. (point of time)
21. My friends lived with me from September to November. (Past point of time)
22. He will start coming here from next month. (Future point of time)
4. Some other prepositions
2. I am about to go.
Last night at
14. leave out the preposition before phrases last, next, this, that, also before today, yesterday,
17. No preposition for Transitive verb discuss, describe, reach, order, tell, demand, attack,
resemble, redicule
things or state
4. allusion to something 5. alternative to a 6. analogy of one thing
thing
16. attack somebody 17. attack on a country 18. attraction to or towards
a thing
19. authority over a person 20. authority on a subject 21. aversion to a person or
thing
22. candidate for a post 23. care for somebodys 24. care for his health
safety
25. charge of murder 26. charge with theft 27. claim on or against
somebody
28. claim to property 29. compact with a person 30. comment on
something
31. comparison of 32. By/in comparison with 33. compassion for
somebody
34. competition with 35. competition for 36. complicity in a crime
somebody something
37. compliance with a 38. condemnation to death 39. confidence in
request somebody
40. conformity with 41. conformity to rule 42. compensation for a
somebody dispute
55. decline of an empire 56. decline in moral/price 57. degradation from rank
58. delight in music/in 59. descent from ancestors 60. desire for wealth
something
61. desirous of something 62. disgust at meanness 63. dislike to a person or
thing
64. distaste for 65. doubt of or about a 66. duty to a person
mathematics/somethin thing
g
67. encroachment on/upon 68. engagement with 69. entrance into a place
somebody or
something
76. failure of somebody in 77. faith in somebody or 78. familiarity with a
something thing
82. glance over a wide 83. gratitude for a thng 84. gratitude to a person
surface
85. grief at an event 86. grief for a person 87. guess at the
truth/something
88. harmony with anything 89. hatred of or for 90. hatred of a thing
somebody
91. heir to some property 92. heir of somebody 93. hindrance to
something
94. hint at some reward 95. hope of or for better 96. hostility to a person or
luck cause
97. identity with 98. immersion into water 99. implication in this
somebody/something crime
1. implication on 2. imputation against 3. incentive to a worker
someone somebody
4. inclination for 5. indifference to help 6. influence over or with
character
10. intercession with a 11. intercession for a 12. jurisdiction in a
abroad/ doing
something
28. precaution against 29. preface to a book 30. preference fro
infection something
31. preparatin for 32. proof against 33. proof of guilt
examinations/somethin somebody
g
34. qualifaication for a 35. quarrel with 36. readiness in
things somebody
43. remonstrance against 44. remonstrance with 45. reply to a query / a
wealth
52. in search of wealth/ a 53. share in the property/ 54. share with somebody
behavious/ something
SOME VERBS OR APPROPRIATE PREPOSITIONS
1. abound in or with 2. accrue to somebody 3. accrue from something
something
4. accuse somebody of 5. acquit a perosn of all 6. acquit a person in a
misconduct/ something
19. apologize for 20. appeal to the judge/ 21. appeal against a
something something
25. appoint a person to a 26. argue with a person for 27. arrive at a conclusion
place
31. ask of somebody 32. associate with a group 33. blame a person for
something
34. blame something on 35. blush at ones own 36. lush for somebody
somebody
43. bring a thing to light 44. bring a thing under 45. burst upon (suddenly
return of)
52. canvass for votes 53. care for (attach value 54. care about (feel
opinion suddenly)
61. come after 62. come into fashion 63. come by
somebody(follow) something(obtain by
effort)
64. come of a rich family 65. commence with a thing 66. communicate a thing
to somebody
67. communicate with 68. compare somebody 69. compare something
somebody something
76. conceal facts from 77. concede to some 78. concur with a person
somebody demand
79. concur in an opinion 80. condemn a person to 81. conform to a norm
death
82. conform with ones 83. congratulate somebody 84. cosult wth ones
dictionary
88. cope with a situation 89. correspond with a 90. correspond to
person something
91. cure a man of a disease 92. cure for a disease 93. cut a thing in or into
pieces
94. cut a thing in half 95. dash against a wall/ 96. dash into a shop
shore/ something
97. dash over anything 98. deal in somethimg 99. deal with a person
100. deal with a person 101. 102.
somebodys favour
103. defer to a later date 104. 105.
lower position
106. demand a thing of a 107. 108.
something
118. dissent from a opinion 119. 120.
things
121. distinguish one thing 122. 123.
something
130. entrust something to 131. 132.
person
136. exonerate a person 137. 138.
activities indulge oneself with signature infer one fact from another
169. inflict pain on a person 170. 171.
event
172. inspire a man with 173. 174.
affairs
175. intrigue with each 176. 177.
budget/means children
187. look into (closely 188. 189.
account
190. look through (examine 191. 192.
staement
196. match one thing with 197. 198.
culprit
217. prohibit from doing 218. 219.
something
223. rail against some body 224. 225.
person
229. relapse into idleness 230. 231.
something
232. repose on a bed 233. 234.
person
244. stand on formalities 245. 246.
person
7. Accountable for a 8. Accruing to a person 9. Accused of theft
statistics person
13. Addicted to 14. Adequate to a persons 15. Adverse to a persons
/drinking
16. Affectionate to a 17. Affection for 18. Afflicted with pain
person somebody
19. Aggravated at a thing 20. Aggravated with a 21. Akin to a person or
person thing
22. Alarmed at a rumour 23. Alien to a persons 24. Alienated from the
character party
25. Alive to the problems 26. Amazed at a persons 27. Ambition for
behavior something
28. Ambitious of 29. Amused at something 30. Angry at a thing
something
31. Angry with a person 32. Annoyed at a remark 33. Annoyed with a person
something
34. Answerable to a 35. Anxious for his safety 36. Anxious about the
occasion
43. Apt in a subject 44. Apt for a purpose 45. Ashamed of ones
conduct
46. Assiduous in ones 47. Associated with a 48. Associated in some
account
58. Charged with forgery 59. Close to a person or 60. Clothed in mist
something
61. Clothed with shame 62. Committed to a course 63. Common to several
friends something/somebody
70. Concerned of ones 71. Concerned in some 72. Conducive to a
mens goods
76. Creditable to ones 77. Cured of a disease 78. Customary for a
judgment person
79. Deprived of rights 80. Derogatory to ones 81. Designed for a purpose
character
82. Desirous for success 83. Destitute for money 84. Dexterous in or at
doing something
85. Disappointed in a thing 86. Disappointed with a 87. Disgusted with a thing
obtained person
88. Disgusted at or with a 89. Disqualified for a post 90. Disqualified from
person competing
91. Doubtful or dubious of 92. Eager for result 93. Eager in the pursuit of
intension knowledge
94. Effective for a purpose 95. Eligible for apost 96. Eminent for ones
writing
97. Endowed with natural 98. Engaged in some work 99. Engaged to a person
ability
100. Envious of 101. 102.
of success
103. Exempted from 104. 105.
prospectus
112. Fertile in 113. 114.
wealth
121. Guilty of 122. 123.
thing
133. Introduce into a 134. 135.
person clients
154. Occupied 155. 156.
person at person
sometimes.
157. Overwhelme 158. 159.
sorrow. feeling
160. Peculiar to 161. 162.
company expenditure
166. Profuse in 167. 168.
money
169. Ready with 170. 171.
response
172. Relevant to 173. 174.
examples
175. Requisite 176. 177.
elements
178. Resolved on 179. 180.
incident/something
181. Sanguine of 182. 183.
safety
193. Startled at 194. 195.
somebodys behavior Strange to a person Subject to change
196. Suited to the 197. 198.
doing something