A Read the following passage and notice the underlined words:
Mr. Kamal was born on 7 April 1980 at a small village in the district of Pabna. He completed his primary and secondary education from two local schools. Then he came to Rajshahi for higher education.
These words are prepositions. A preposition is a word which is used before a noun (or anything equivalent to a noun) and relates it to another word in the sentence. Prepositions usually express time, space and other relationships:
Time: He was born at 3'clock on 9 February in 1999.
Place: He lives at a small village in Bangladesh.
B Identify prepositions in the following passage:
We have a library in our school. We can borrow books from this library. But we cannot use any book without the permission of the librarian. We can keep a borrowed book for two weeks. If anybody fails to return a book within that time, they have to pay a fine.
C. There are many such prepositions in English. The picture below is the use of prepositions and you complete the following sentences with appropriate prepositions:
- This lesson is ______ prepositions.
- He goes _____ bed ._____ten o'clock.
- We reached there _____ lunch time.
- She sat _____ me.
- There is no difference _______ them.
- There is a school _______ our house.
- The cat sat _______ the table.
- I went ______ Dhaka ______ my father.
- We cannot live ______ water.
- The dog jumped ____ the wall.
D Look at the picture and describe the positions of things in it using prepositions. One is done for you:
In the picture, the file is on the table.
