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Nandhusri Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

Prepositions

Could you please help how and where should we use the preposition while making the sentence ?
  

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Hello, nandhusri-- and welcome to English Forums. First, would you please make a list for me-- a list of the prepositions that you know? Thank you!

  • Hello, nandhusri-- and welcome to English Forums.
  • First, would you please make a list for me-- a list of the prepositions that you know?
  • Thank you!
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Hello, nandhusri-- and welcome to English Forums.

First, would you please make a list for me-- a list of the prepositions that you know? Thank you!
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the prepositions that I know are...to,on,for,by,along,from,beside,over,of and with
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Thank you, nandhusri-- that's good. Those are 10 excellent prepositions.

Now, can you please put each one into a prepositional phrase (= preposition + noun phrase object), like this?-- 'to my office'.
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1. The call will be rescheduled on next Monday.

2. Please provide me the required details for the next call.

3. Kindly send me the report along with the process document.

4. Request you to kindly provide the clarifications to my queries.

5. He is sitting beside with me.

6. Would you like me to still
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I would like to know who you are, first. Are you nandhusri?
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yes, am nandhusri...why you got such a doubt ?Emotion: smile
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I doubted because you posted anonymously, and instead of posting prepositional phrases, you posted complete sentences which use prepositions very well, generally.

However, your original question ("Could you please help how and where should we use the preposition while making the sentence?") seemed to show little understanding of sentence structure.

What is it that you do
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Hi Micawber, thank you for your guidance.

Yes, I have no confidence while writing a mail to my client or business. So, I would like to improve this skill with the help of you. The first problem which I felt was how to use preposition in the sentence...see in your previous mail, you have corrected 6 out of 10 sentences, which shows have only 40% of accuracy in using the prepositions. So,
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The mistakes you have made are simply as shown by my corrections. There is no explanation: you must simply learn which function words to choose.

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