thank u so much mr torsten and ur group too.really i appreciate your efforts and how much you’r helping us to improve our english language.but really i still find difficulties to form sentences with correct prepositions .this is the most difficult thing i find to speak english well.so sorry ur lesson of prepositions didn’t help me too much.i need more and detailed explanation to get this lesson well.thank u so much
Please listen to my recording and respond with a voice message too. Many thanks.
i agree with you >>> i learn a lot from this story thanks Alan. I love too the accent of that girl i’ll listen to it again.
thanks
Hi Torsten. I don’t get the meaning of “used in”.
I am saddened by the fact that there is a very strong American accent in the recordings.
I hear “ad-vehn-tidge” instead of “ad-vahn-tidge”.
The fact is, the world is inundated with American material and some British actors have taken up this foreign accent.
Still, I hope that we will be able to ward off the “how RU” and other trends.
“The King’s Speech” did not receive so many awards without a reason…
What’s the difference between AT and IN, please?
It depends on the individual contexts.
Here are the basic uses:
oxfordadvancedlearnersdictio … tionary/at
oxfordadvancedlearnersdictio … tionary/in
Please I need to know how to use the preposition " by".
Dear Sir,
Thank you for your wonderful story, I must say, this is how the prepositions should be taught,
Great !
Sathishpattambi
Dear Sir,
Cannot we write English without using Poropositions Sir? If so teach me how to write
English sentences without adding propsitions.
Thank you
S.Shanthi
Hello
I don’t understand properly what the meaning of
been cancelled. I asked by whom they had been cancelled. I never knew the
- whom means a person, does not?
Thanks
Hi,
The question raised by whom had been called a person.
Thank you
S.Shanthi
“I asked by whom they had been cancelled.”
This is a rather odd way of asking:
I asked who had cancelled them?
Hello Torsten,
I got a message from this thread. I try to look for the 147 prepositions but I found 149. This was a good exercise.
I found 149.
147 prepositions - says Alan
1.At the time
2. living in a small village
3-4 about 25 miles from London
5. That was the advantage of living there
6. you could get to London
7. in under half an hour.
8. That was by train
9. by car
10-11take about three times as long
12. sit in your stationary car
13 for ages
14 in the morning rush hour.
15 in detail
16. asked for someone
17.who had some knowledge of computing
18-19-20: had worked at least for two years in car sales
21-22-23: was not afraid of travelling up and down
24.the motorway to London
25.-26 from a place not far from where I lived.
27. quite different from the job
28. I had at the time. = in those day
29-30-31: at 10 am on a Monday morning in January.
32.Throughout the weekend
33. make up my mind
34-35-36: to travel by car or by train.
37-38.At the end of Sunday
39. it was going to be
40. In the end
41. [b]after[/b] all = in the end
42-43. job wasto do with cars.
44-45.On the day of the interview
46-47: I got up /at 6 am
48: I was terrified of being late
49: woke up early
50. the noise of the traffic
51. as it rattled
52. past my bedroom window
53. in the morning
54. On this particular morning
55. I looked out of the window
56.57. blanket of snow on the road
58. by train
59. down to London
60. by whom they had been cancelled.
61. answer to that question
62I had been cut off.
63.think over
64.for the day.
65.From my bedroom window
66-67 I looked down at
68. After breakfast
69-70. I managed to brush off
71. from the car
72-73: by a good stroke of fortune
74. I managed to get it started
75. at the third attempt
76. I drove along the road
77-78: that led up to the motorway
79: with a light heart
80. everything seemed to be
81. with the sun shining
82. through the clouds
83-84-85: snow gently falling down on to the car
86: queue of cars
87. one behind the other
88-89. in the middle of a huge traffic jam
90. In my mind
91.-92 started to go through the qualities
93. that were needed for the job
94. Among the requirements
95.96. ability to work under pressure,
97-98: in the face of difficult circumstances
99-100-101: a determination to see a job through to the end.
102. by now = by this time
103. on a normal day
104. drive would take about forty-five minutes
105. On a day like this
106. it would be impossible to gauge.
107. I decided to relax.
108. After all = but, however
109. why should I worry about it?
110. Within five minutes
111. for the next two miles
112. I was driving along the motorway
113. at quite a good speed.
114. I skidded off the road
115. into the bank
116. by the hard shoulder.
117. steam started to pour
118.119.120. from out of the car bonnet.
121. I glanced at my watch.
122. It was fifteen minutes to ten
123. there were still about 10 miles to go.
124. I had my mobile phone with me
125. who promised to come
126. 127. I also phoned the firm I was supposed to be having an interview with,
128.129. They towed it away to a garage
130.131.dropped me off at the nearest railway station.
132. at 11.30 am
133. I left to go home,
134. “presence of mind and determination”
135. I was feeling very pleased with myself.
136. I had shown ability above the average
137. had scored well over any other candidate
138.139. It wasn’t until I had been there for three weeks
140. I found out the truth.
141.142.143. I had been the only candidate who had managed to get to the interview on that snowy day ten years ago.
144.145.146.147.148.149.
— “I think it’s about time for us to leave.”
— “Our new boss is probably about 40.”
— “May I ask you a question about your family?”
— “What’s this noise all about?”
— "How about going to the cinema tonight?"
— "What are you going to do about this situation?
Kati Svaby
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Hello Torsten,
I saw again your first letter:
Its link: 8 Prepositions or How I got that Job?
I misunderstood your request because I was looking for the all prepositions which we could find in ‘I got that Job?’
Which ‘8’ did you think?
Regards:
Kati Svaby
Hello Parallel,
If I translated word by word :’ on the top of sb’s tongue’ its meaning is the same in Hungarian and in English. So for us it’s very easy to understand this expression.
Of course its meaning not “to know a word perfectly” but "to know it but not being able to recall it at the moment".
I am in this situation with the names, I know them very much but I can’t recall them. In this time I say: Yes, I know, wait a second, his name is on the tip of my tongue.Several times I realized that only I imagined I needed only few seconds… sometimes few days.
Regards:
Kati Svaby
Hi
I don’t know the meaning for 8 propositions, I searched through Bing there
also I don’t understand anything. Somewhere it has stated same group people
(same gender) should not get married as per Callifornia law. It applicable to all countries.
Please ignore my reply if it is wrong. Why are you giving such a confusing topic
to reply?
Thank you
S.Shanthi
Hello,
I found out which can be the 8 prepositions.
- at
- from
- for
- on
- throughout
- of
- with
- among
Why? Because only these ones can be only prepositions the others can be adverbs, adjectives, conjunctives, nouns and verbs also.
Bye:
Kati Svaby
Hello,
Explanation:
about - adverb/ adjective/ preposition
to - infinitive marker/adverb/preposition
in - adverb/ adjective/noun/preposition
under - adverb/ adjective/ preposition
by - adverb/ preposition
as - conjunction / adverb/ preposition
for - conjunction/ preposition
up - adverb,adjective/ verb/ noun/ preposition
up and down - adverb /preposition
after - conjunction/ adverb/ adjective/ preposition
past - adjective/ noun/adverb/ preposition
out - adverb/ preposition
down - adverb/ verb/ adjective/ noun/ preposition
over - adverb/ noun/ preposition
off -adverb, adjective/ noun/ verb/ preposition
along - adverb/ preposition
through - adverb/ adjective/ preposition
under - adverb/ preposition
as long - adverb/ preposition
Kati Svaby
Hello,
I revealed my mistakes in 34# permalink.
Infinitive ‘to’ isn’t a preposition but an infinitive marker.
in under half an hour = two prepositions; its meaning in less one an hour
it would take about three times as long = it would take up three times long time
‘about’ is a preposition; but as long What is the ‘as’ in this phrase?
at least = adverb =‘not less than’ is not a preposition if we see the 2 words together; but ‘at’ alone would be a preposition.
up and down the motorway=preposition:up and down sth = in one direction and then opposite direction along sth
Kati Svaby