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Different prepositions, similar in meaning
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Prepositions
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Differences in meaning
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Container, Flat surface or Point?
• Christmas - P
• Weekend – FS/P
• Easter - P
• The winter, spring, summer, fall - C
• Sunday - FS
• Carnival - P
• A fortnight - C
• January - C
Tradução de Inglês/Ensino de Língua
Inglesa e Novas Tecnologias -
Gramática II
Between X Among: two or more referents
By Until
• The last moment in which • The total amount of time
something has to be to accomplish something.
done. • A grace period
• An ultimatum • Prior to a time that follows
• At or prior to a given time. • Lead-up to the deadline
• The deadline itself.
Complex prepositions
• Hardly had the men started training than they were sent
out to fight.
• Hardly had she opened her mailbox when she got a
notification of the message.
• No sooner had I walked through the door had than the
phone rang.
• Not only can he make people laugh but can also do
very dramatic roles..
• Frequency of usage
• Register or context
• Size of connected element: blocks of text or short
phrases e.g. furthermore x as well
• Sentence position: before a clause e.g. so, thus; within
clauses e.g. also, therefore; at the end of sentences e.g.
too, though
• http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/
• http://corpus.byu.edu/bnc/
• http://www.sk.com.br/sk-pdv.html
• http://www.englishpage.com/prepositions/verb_prepositio
n.html
• http://grammar.yourdictionary.com/parts-of-
speech/prepositions/idioms-that-begin-with-
prepositions.html
• www.sk.com.br/sk-conn.html
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