ADVERBS OF FREQUENCY

PREPOSITIONS OF PLACE

PREPOSITIONS OF PLACES

  

ON: means that something is in a position that is physically touching, covering or attached to something. We use on to show a specific place or position.
We use on to show position on a horizontal or vertical surface. Also it uses to show position on streets, roads, etc.

Ex:    I can see a spider on the ceilling.


IN: Inside.
We use in to show that something is enclosed or surrounded. 

Ex: She is in the car

We also in to show position within land-areas (towns, countries, and continents).

I used to live in Barranquilla

AT: it is used to show an exact position or particular place, events, place where you do something typical (watch a film, study, work).

Ex: I met her at the bus stop.
      At a concert                                At a party
      At the movies                             At univesity

UNDER: lower than (or covered by) something else. 

Ex: the cat is under the chair.

IN FRONT OF: Position directly before or ahead.

Ex: The teacher stand in front of the students.

BEHIND: at the back (of)

Ex:  I hubg my coat behind the door.

NEXT TO /   BESIDES: not far away in distance. It usually refers to a thing (or person)
that is at the side of another thing.

Ex: The girl who lives next to my house is beautiful.

NEAR / CLOSE TO: not far away in distance.

Ex:   Andrew lives near the school.

BETWEEN: in or into the space which separates two places, people or subject.

Ex: The Bogota bank is between the school and the drugstore.

OVER: above or higher that something else.

Ex: She held the umbrella overboth of us.

Across from one side to the other.

Ex: I walked over the Pumarejo bridge.

ACROSS FROM: from one side to the other of something with clear limits. Getting to the other side,

Ex: He saile across the Atlantic.

AMONG: in, into or through, in the midst of, surrounded by.

Ex: she was among friends.