When "to"is used as a preposition?

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Dear teachers,     I wonder when "to" is used as a preposition  in a sentence.Thanks for your time and help.   Katie

JohnParis · Accepted Answer

Yours is an incredibly broad question. Here is a link for beginners trying to understand prepositions.
http://esl.about.com/library/beginner/bleasypreps.htm

Kitty-girl · Answer

Thanks.

Andrey Devyatov · Answer

1) expressing motion in the direction of (a particular location) "walking down to the mall" | "my first visit to Africa" ¦ expressing location, typically in relation to a specified point of reference "forty miles to the south of the site" | "place the cursor to the left of the first word" ¦ expressing a point reached at the end of a range or after a period of time "a drop in profits from $105 million to around $75 million" | "from 1938 to 1945" ¦ (in telling the time) before (the hour specified) "it's five to ten" ¦ approaching or reaching (a particular condition) "Christopher's expression changed from amazement to joy" | "she was close to tears" ¦ expressing the result of a process or action "smashed to smithereens" 2) identifying the person or thing affected "you were terribly unkind to her" ¦ identifying the recipient or intended recipient of something "he wrote a heart-rending letter to the parents" | "I am deeply grateful to my parents" 3) identifying a particular relationship between one person and another "he is married to Jan's cousin" | "economic adviser to the president" ¦ in various phrases indicating how something is related to something else (often followed by a noun without a determiner) "made to order" | "a prelude to disaster" ¦ indicating a rate of return on something, e.g., the distance traveled in exchange for fuel used, or an exchange rate that can be obtained in one currency for another it only does ten miles to the gallon ¦ to the Mathematics indicating the power (exponent) to which a number is raised "ten to the minus thirty-three"4) indicating that two things are attached "he had left his bike chained to a fence" | figurative" they are inextricably linked to this island" 5) concerning or likely to concern (something, esp. something abstract) "a threat to world peace" | "a reference to Psalm 22:18" 6) governing a phrase expressing someone's reaction to something "to her astonishment, he smiled" 7) used to introduce the second element in a comparison "it's nothing to what it once was"

from Oxford American Dictionary

Kitty-girl · Answer

Thanks very much.

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