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Unit 5: Parts of Speech: Adjective and Preposition

We use on to designate names of streets, avenues, etc. Notes

Her house is on Tughlak Road.
And we use in for the names of land-areas (towns, counties, states, countries, and continents).
She lives in Durham.
Durham is in Windham County.

Windham County is in Connecticut.

Prepositions of Location: in, at, and on and No Preposition

IN A T ON N O
(the) bed* class* the bed* PREPOSITION
the bedroom home the ceiling downstairs
the car the library* the floor downtown
(the) class the office the horse inside
*the library* school* the plane outside
school work the train upstairs
uptown
* You may sometimes use different prepositions for these locations.

Prepositions of Movement: to
and No Preposition
We use to in order to express movement toward a place.
They were driving to work together.

She’s going to the dentist’s office this morning.
Toward and towards are also helpful prepositions to express movement. These are simply
variant spellings of the same word; use whichever sounds better to you.

We’re moving toward the light.
This is a big step towards the project’s completion.
With the words home, downtown, uptown, inside, outside, downstairs, upstairs, we use no
preposition.
Grandma went upstairs
Grandpa went home.
They both went outside.
Prepositions of Time: for and since
We use for when we measure time (seconds, minutes, hours, days, months, years).

He held his breath for seven minutes.
She’s lived there for seven years.
The British and Irish have been quarreling for seven centuries.
We use since with a specific date or time.

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