Prepositions

Prepositions
in, on, for, from, after, before, without, within, between, into, out, of, etc.
pre + position
under the chair
behind the tree
on the table
in my house
after the lockdown
outside the campus

Uses

1. Temporal
at 5 o’clock, on Sunday, in March, in 2021, for 3 months, in the morning, after 7 pm, between 4 and 7, to date, till Monday, from 5 to 9, etc.

2. Spatial (not “special”)
above the cupboard, in the sky, over my head, in the corner, under the table, etc.

3. Instrumental
with a hammar, by bus/train/car/plane/sea/air, in a car, in a taxi, on foot

4. Phrasal verbs
Verb + particle
look at (primary meaning “see”)
look after (take care of)
look for (search for)
look into (investigate)
look forward to (wait eagerly)
look up to s.b. (respect)
look out (watch out, be careful)
look them up (find out more information about s.t.)

5. Words (n., adj.)  followed by fixed prepositions
a professor of…, a lecturer in…, a teacher of…, interested in…, good at…, different from…, addicted to…, adjacent to, accustomed to,

6. Special / idiomatic
on end, in tendam, at a pinch, on time, for good, in time, etc.

7. phrase prepositions
instead of, on behalf of, with a view to, in order to, because of, owing to, due to, in accordance with, according to, by dint of, in lieu of, etc.