Welcome to your Prepositions: “In” / “On” / “Between” / “In front of” lesson! In this topic we talk about:
• Asking about a place
• Localising
• Place adverbs
• Asking where something or someone is
• Saying where something or someone is
• “Who” and “Which”
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Asking about a place
We use “Where” to ask about a place:
“Where is my dictionary?”
“It’s on your desk.”
Localising
We use prepositions to introduce compliments:
| in | on | under | between |
| near | next to | in front of | behind |
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“Daniel is in the classroom. He’s in front of Amy, behind Susan, near Kenny, next to Brian, between Brian and Kenny.”
Place adverbs
Here are a few place adverbs:
| here | there | over there | downstairs |
| upstairs | inside | outside |
“It is warm outside”
“Go upstairs”
Asking where something or someone is
To ask about a place, we use the word “Where” at the beginning of the question.
The order of the words are as following: Where + auxiliary + subject?
“Where is Brain?”
Saying where something or someone is
To respond to a question that begins with “Where”, we use a preposition and a place, or a place adverb:
“Where’s Brian?”
“He’s in his bedroom.” “He’s upstairs.”
“Who” and “Which”
“Who” is a relative pronoun used for humans:
“The girl who is next to Sally…”
“Which” is a relative pronoun used for things:
“The phone which is black…”
Important Expressions“To be at home.” |
