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