Useful List of Common Prepositions in English

English Prepositions are a class of words that express spatial or temporal relations (in, under, towards) or marking various semantic roles (of, for).

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English Prepositions

An English preposition typically combines with a noun or pronoun, or more generally a noun phrase, this being called its complement, or sometimes object. An English preposition comes before its complement.

This is the English prepositions Table. In English, some prepositions are short, mostly containing six letters or fewer. There are, however, many multi-word prepositions.

List of Prepositions

Single Word English Prepositions
a	given
abaft	in
abeam	including
aboard	inside
about	into
above	like
absent	mid (from “amid”. Usually used poetically.)
across	midst (from “amidst”. Usually used poetically.)
afore	minus
after	modulo
against	near
along	next
alongside	notwithstanding (also used postpositionally)
amid	of
amidst	off
among	on
amongst	onto
an (see “a” for usage in front of consonants)	opposite
anenst	out
apropos (“apropos of” is a common derived term)	outside
apud	over
around	pace
as (also an adverb and a conjunction)	past
aside	per
astride	plus
at	pro
athwart	qua
atop	regarding
barring	round
before	sans
behind	save
below	since
beneath	than
beside	through, thru (informal)
besides	throughout, thruout (informal)
between	till (same as “until”, with prosodic restrictions)
beyond	to
but	toward
by	towards
chez	under
circa (sometimes abbreviated as “c.” or “ca.”)	underneath
concerning	unlike
despite	until
down	unto
during	up
except	upon
excluding	versus, commonly abbreviated as “vs.”, or (principally in law or sports) as “v.”
failing	via
following	vice, meaning “in place of”
for	with (sometimes written as “w/”)
forenenst	within (sometimes written as “w/in” or “w/i”)
from	without (sometimes written as “w/o”)
worth
Two Words English Prepositions
according to	near to
ahead of	next to
apart from	on to (contracted as onto)
as for	opposite of
as of	opposite to
as per	out from
as regards	out of
aside from	outside of
astern of	owing to
back to	prior to
because of	pursuant to
close to	rather than
due to	regardless of
except for	right of
far from	subsequent to
in to (contracted as into)	such as
inside of (note that inside out is an adverb, not a preposition)	thanks to
instead of	that of
left of	up to
Three words English Prepositions
as far as is one example of the many expressions which can be analyzed as as+adjective+as rather than a multiword preposition
as long as in the sense of if or since, rather than of the same length
as opposed to
as soon as
as well as

English Prepositions

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