{"id":94,"date":"2008-07-19T00:31:56","date_gmt":"2008-07-19T00:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/?p=94"},"modified":"2021-02-03T17:26:26","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T23:26:26","slug":"problems-with-prepositions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/prepositions\/problems-with-prepositions\/","title":{"rendered":"Problems with Prepositions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prepositions are certain words that go directly before nouns. They often show direction; for example, <em>below, above, over, under, around, through, in, out, between, among, to, toward(s), <\/em>etc. Other common prepositions include <em>of, for<\/em>, <em>from, with, like<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rule:<\/strong> You shouldn\u2019t use or end a sentence with an unnecessary preposition, i.e., when the meaning is clear without the preposition. Sentences may end with necessary prepositions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Correct:<\/strong> <em>That is something I cannot agree with.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>With<\/em> is a necessary preposition.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Incorrect:<\/strong> <em>Where did he go to?<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Correct: <\/strong><em>Where did he go?<\/em><br \/>\n<em>To<\/em> is unnecessary because the meaning is clear without it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rule:<\/strong> Don\u2019t follow <em>like<\/em> with a subject and verb because prepositions are followed only by nouns that act as the object of the preposition. Use <em>as<\/em>, <em>as if,<\/em> <em>as though, <\/em>or<em> the way<\/em> instead of <em>like<\/em> when a subject and verb follow.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Correct:<\/strong> <em>I wish I could be more like her.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Incorrect:<\/strong> <em>It doesn\u2019t look like she will show up for dinner.<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Correct:<\/strong><em> It doesn\u2019t look as if (or as though) she will show up for dinner.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Incorrect: <\/strong><em>Do it like I taught you.<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Correct: <\/strong><em>Do it the way I taught you.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pop Quiz<\/strong><br \/>\nWhich sentence is correct?<\/p>\n<p>1A. Where did you get this at?<br \/>\n1B. Where did you get this?<\/p>\n<p>2A. I will go later on.<br \/>\n2B. I will go later.<\/p>\n<p>3A. Take your shoes off the bed.<br \/>\n3B. Take your shoes off of the bed.<\/p>\n<p>4A. Cut it up into small pieces.<br \/>\n4B. Cut it into small pieces.<\/p>\n<p>5A. I look like my sister.<br \/>\n5B. I look as my sister.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pop Quiz Answers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. B<br \/>\n2. B<br \/>\n3. A<br \/>\n4. B<br \/>\n5. A<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prepositions are certain words that go directly before nouns. They often show direction; for example, below, above, over, under, around, through, in, out, between, among, to, toward(s), etc. Other common prepositions include of, for, from, with, like. Rule: You shouldn\u2019t use or end a sentence with an unnecessary preposition, i.e., when the meaning is clear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prepositions"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}