.By Geraldine Vanegas Palacios

Prepositions of Places

PREPOSITIONS OF PLACES

• Prepositions can be used to show • where something is located • When translating To Be + Preposition in English (e.g. The dog is next to the tree), the verb to be (in Its correct form) is used before the preposition of place. (E.g. The dog is next to the tree).

BEHIND NEXT TO

-She could feel Jace standing behind her.

-We thought there might be a cellar door behind the trash bin.

Next to the old-fashioned black telephone was a globe-He was sitting next to Jace, across from Clary, and avoiding looking at her.

IN/ON/AT

TheMortal cup is in clary’s hand.

-Used in for an enclosed space

The Mortal cup is on the desk.

-Used to express a surface of something:

At tells us that the following noun is located at a specific point or location. It shows an exact position

Jace is at the entrance of Pandemonium Club

IN FRONT OF BETWEEN

The cat is in front of the door

Clary saw many demons in front of her house.

That unfortunate kid is between two big rocks.

Medellin city is between Monteria and Cali.

UNDER ABOVE

They kissed under the moonlight.

The ground was heaving up anddown under her feet

Clary could see blue sky above hishead, a bit of tree branch, and the corner of a gray clapboard house.

DON’T GET CONFUSED

She's at the library. - the emphasis is on the her location and the type of place she has gone to.She's in the library. - the emphasis is on the type of building she is in.