tailieunhanh - Oxford guide to english grammar part 43

Articles (. the), Possessives (. my) and adjectives (. good) do not have endings for number or gender. Pronouns (. lime) have fewer forms than in many languages. Word order is very important in English. As nouns do not have endings for subject or object, it is the word order that shows which is which. | 27 PREPOSITIONS 225 Prepositions of place 1 Basic meanings There are some people in inside the cafe. The man is waiting outside the cafe. There s a television on the table. There s a photo on top of the television. There s a dog under neath the table. There s a picture overt above the door. There s a small table under below the window. She s going up the steps and he s coming down the steps. The road goes through a tunnel. The car is going in into the tunnel. The lorry is coming out of the tunnel. She s taking thefood off the trolley and putting it on onto the shelves. The bus is at the bus stop. It s going from the city centre to the university. The lorry is travelling away from York and towards Hull. The man is sitting next to by beside the woman. Their table is close to near the door. 225 Prepositions of place The bus is in front of the car. The lorry is behind the car. The car is between the bus and the lorry. The woman is walking along the pavement past the supermarket. The man is on the pavement opposite the bank. The bank is across the road. The President is standing among his bodyguards. They are all round around him. There s a hill beyond the church. on the other side of The man is leaning against the wall. a We use of only with on top of out of and in front of. NOT inside ofNOT offofand NOT behind of although outside of is possible b Two other prepositions of place are throughout and within. They are a little formal. The epidemic spread throughout the country all over the country. to all parts of Delivery is free within a ten-mile radius. inside c Beneath is rather literary. From the balloon we could see the town far below beneath us. d Around and about mean in different directions or in different places . We re going to drive around about the country visiting different places. There were piles of old magazines lying around about the flat. 27 PREPOSITIONS PAGE 290 2 Position and movement a Most prepositions of place say where something is or where it is .