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Appropriate Prepositions List

The document provides a list of appropriate prepositions used in various contexts, highlighting their specific usages with examples. It emphasizes that exceptions may exist in the application of these prepositions. The document serves as a guide for understanding how to correctly use prepositions in relation to people and actions.

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Appropriate Prepositions List

The document provides a list of appropriate prepositions used in various contexts, highlighting their specific usages with examples. It emphasizes that exceptions may exist in the application of these prepositions. The document serves as a guide for understanding how to correctly use prepositions in relation to people and actions.

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A SMALL LIST OF APPROPRIATE PREPOSITIONS JUST TO GIVE YOU AN IDEA

The Usage of Prepositions


Please note that exceptions are always present.

agree to a proposal with a person


on a point

with living things at non-living things


angry
(I am angry with you) (I am angry at your conduct.)

to a person (explain the reasons


We answer for one’s actions) for conduct

We apologise to a person for something (E.g. He


apologized for his rudeness.)
We appeal to a person for help / justice
against an order
We apply to a person for something (post, leave, t.c.
etc.)
(E.g. I applied to the principal
for T.C.)
We argue with a person for or against a point

We ask for something of a person / a person for something


He asked for help of me. / He asked me for help.

We attend to something / someone (pay on someone (take care, nurse)


attention to) E.g. Please attend on the
E.g. Attend to your studies. patient.
Please attend to the guests.

Note: We attend a meeting /


seminar etc.
We beg of a person for a thing (e.g. pardon)

Someone is blind in one eye to something (ignorant esp.


E.g. The beggar is blind in one intentional)
eye. E.g. He is blind to his own faults.
with one another (when we are
to one another (when we are
comparing similarities and
trying to mean ‘same as’)
We compare differences)
E.g. His anger can be compared
E.g. Do not compare him with
to fire.
Virat.
We compete with a person for a prize

We complain to or against a person of something

We deal with a person in things

We die of a disease from overwork, etc

We differ with a person on some matter


We distinguish between two things one thing from another

We entrust a person with a thing a thing to a person

We feed on food items, etc someone with something


(E.g. The baby feeds on milk and (E.g. He feeds his cow with
cereals.) grass.)
We feel for a person

We fight with a person for something

We inform a person of something

We inquire of a person about somebody or something

We interfere with a person in his affairs

We jump to a conclusion at an offer

We knock at a door

We look at a beautiful / dismal sight

We part from a person with a thing

We point at a person

ourselves against
We protect others from harm/something
harm/something
We provide a person with something for our family
We put up at a place (stay) with a person (tolerate)

We supply a person with something something to a person

We sympathise
with a person in their sorrow or trouble
/empathise

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