Perfect Prepositions: A Real Life Guide to Using English Prepositions

288 Pages·2005·32.19 MB·English

by  Galina Kimber

Galina Kimber

A REAL LIFE GUIDE
TO USING ENGLISH PREPOSITIONS
Perfect Prepositions
Perfect Prepositions

A Real Life Guide to Using
English Prepositions

Galina Kimber

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Perfect Prepositions
A Real Life Guide to Using English Prepositions

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Perfect prepositions : a
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English prepositions
ACKNO WLEDG EMENTS

I wish to express my acknowledgement to Dr. J. Franke and Dr. V. Mylnikov who

read through the manuscript and made valuable remarks and suggestions as to

the contents and the structure of this book. I wish to thank my husband, John

Evans Kimber, for reading the draft and helping me identify and address some of

the shortcomings, even if I did not always accept all of advice that came my way.

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THE STRUCTURE OF THE BOOK

The book consists of several sections. The introductory part explains the reasons

for writing this book and for whom it is designed. Then it lists objective and sub-

jective difficulties the author met with while preparing it and principles of organ-

izing the contents as well as for choosing illustrative material. The terms used in

the book are explained in the section ‘The Structure of the Definition of the

Category.’ The practical part of the book contains the lists of the categories for 99

prepositions and their meanings as well as the examples illustrating them. Our

research showed that the most frequently used prepositions in Modern English

are the prepositions on, at, by, for, in, of, and with. An Appendix is attached at the

end of the last section.

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