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Correlative Conjunctions  I’d like to work with both animals and children.  Both my grandfather and my father worked in a hospital.  We can either go by bus or by car.  I neither smoke nor drink.  That student is not only intelligent but also very kind.

Prepositions

 The word “preposition” (pre-position) means “place before”. They usually come before another word, usually a noun or a pronoun;  A word that shows and describes the relationship between a noun or a pronoun and other words in a sentence.  Prepositions are nearly always combined with other words in structures called prepositional phrases.  Of, for, on, in, at, over, among, between, after, before...

Prepositions of Time: at, on, and in  We use at to designate specific times. The train is due at 12:15 p.m.  We use on to designate days and dates. My brother is coming on Monday.  We use in for nonspecific times during a day, a month, a season, or a year. She goes to school in the morning.

Prepositions of Place: at, on, and in  We use at for complete addresses or events. I live at 55 First Avenue, Downtown, Saint Fracis.  We use on to designate names of streets, avenues, neighborhoods. The post office is on Carlton Avenue.  We use in for the names of land-areas such as cities, towns, counties, countries, continents. I used to live in Fortaleza.

Prepositions of Movement  We use to to show movement with the aim of a specific destination. I moved to Germany in 1998. He's gone to the mall.  We use through to show movement from one side of an enclosed space to the other. The train went through the tunnel.

 We use across to show movement from one side of a surface or line to another. She swam across the river. Other prepositions of movement: She ran... into the classroom. along the road. (The length of the road.) around the playground. away from the policeman. back to the store. up the hill.