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Placement of Prepositions

There are a few rules that need to be followed for the placement of prepositions.

1. A preposition is usually followed by a noun or a pronoun. For example,
• The pen is on the desk.

• She works in New York.
• I have been waiting for him.

2. Usually, the preposition is placed before the object. However, sometimes, it is
placed after the object to form questions. For example,
• What game are you interested in?

• What are you looking at?

• Who was the Principal complaining about?
3. When the object of a preposition is used as the subject, the preposition is placed at
the end of the sentence. For example,

• The sky was too bright to look at.

• Faith is what we live by.
4. Sometimes a sentence may start with a Note
prepositional phrase. For example, When a prepositional phrase
• In a large box, Radha packed her books. comes at the beginning of a

• After the match, we went out to sentence, it must be followed
have dinner. by a comma.

D. Fill in the blanks with suitable prepositions.

1. Those are the buildings that I was talking .

2. What was the policeman looking ?

3. Where do you come ?

4. Who was he talking ?

5. He is so rude. He is impossible to talk .

6. What kind of books are you interested ?

7. Where did you get that book ?

8. She told me that her friend was so selfish that he was impossible to deal

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