Important Prepositions You Should Know

Prepositions are words which begin prepositional phrases. A prepositional phrase is a group of words containing a preposition, a noun or pronoun object of the preposition, and any modifiers of the object. -Townson

I'm bringing you some very important prepositions which everyone should know especially if one is not a native speaker of English language.

Commonly Used Prepositions
Abstain from	Account for
Accuse of	Accustomed to
Adapted to	Addicted to
Approve of	Associated with
Aware of	Benefit from
Blame for	Capable of
Compatible with	Composed of
Consist of	Content with
Contrary to	Contribute to
Convert to	Cope with
Count on	Dedicate to
Dependent on	Deprived of
Derive from	Devoid of
Devote to	Differ from
Distinct from	Distinguish from
Emerge from	Equal to
Exempt from	Exposed to
Famous for	Fed up with
Focus on	Get rid of
Hinder from	Indifferent to
Infer from	Insist on
Involve in	Irrespective of
Keen on	Lead to
Notorious for	Obliged to
Obsessed with	Oppose to
Peer at	Persist in
Prevent from	Prone to
Recover from	Refrain from
Respond to	Responsible for
Short of	Spend on
Stem from	Succeed in
Suffer from	Superior to
Susceptible to	Tend to
Vote for	Worry about
Yield to	fond of

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Let's now move one step further and learn about using prepositions according to certain rules.

Prepositions	Usage	Examples
For time
ago	certain time in past	5 days ago, 56 minutes ago
at	night weekend specific point of time	- - at 10:04 am
before	earlier than specific time	before 2010
by	up to a specific time	by 10 o'clock
for	time period	The cabinet is elected for 5 years.
in	months seasons time of day after a period of time year	in March in Spring in the morning in 3 hours in 2016
on	days of the week	on Friday
past	for telling time	19 past ten
since	from a specific time	since 1992