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Submitted by sankarapusreenu... on 12 April, 2008 - 18:34
Easy tips to prepositions
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The rules regarding the use of prepositions will not be of much help because there are equally large number of exceptions. The best way to understand the use of prepositions, would be to list down, say, Adjectives followed by Prepositions, as in, Angry with, Ashamed of, Afraid of, Confident of, Eligible for, Grateful to, etc
Similarly you could also give them the combination of Verbs with Prepositions, as in, Acquit of, Agree with, Beg for, Believe in, Deal with, Differ from, etc
There's a diagram a colleague gave me which shows the general meanings of prepositions of place/movement. It's just like a square and dots placed to show what each of the preposition means, e.g. 'in' is in the square, 'on', on the line at the top, 'into' is a dot outside the square with a dot going into the square, and so on. Sadly I can't recall right now what it's called or where she got it from, but I'll ask her and post it here if she tells me. Otherwise, maybe you'll be lucky find a similar diagram on google?
CMF