{"id":74180,"date":"2020-04-21T06:40:37","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T06:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=74180"},"modified":"2020-04-21T06:40:37","modified_gmt":"2020-04-21T06:40:37","slug":"prepositions-some-points-to-remember","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/prepositions-some-points-to-remember\/","title":{"rendered":"Prepositions | Some Points To Remember"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Using <a href=\"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/uses-of-prepositions\/\">prepositions<\/a> correctly presents special problems for people whose first language is not English. That&#8217;s because so many <a href=\"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/what-are-prepositional-phrases\/\">prepositional phrases<\/a> are idiomatic: They have evolved through use and do not necessarily make logical sense. Here are some guidelines:<\/p>\n<p>Use\u00a0<b>in\u00a0<\/b>before seasons of the year. Also use\u00a0<b>in<\/b>\u00a0with months and years not followed by specific dates.<\/p>\n<p><b>in\u00a0<\/b>the summer<br \/>\n<b>in\u00a0<\/b>January<br \/>\n<b>in\u00a0<\/b>2003<\/p>\n<p>Use\u00a0<b>on<\/b>\u00a0before days of the week, holidays, and months, if the date follows.<\/p>\n<p><b>on\u00a0<\/b>Wednesday<br \/>\n<b>on\u00a0<\/b>Thanksgiving<br \/>\n<b>on\u00a0<\/b>July 20<\/p>\n<p><b>Like<\/b>\u00a0is a preposition that means \u201csimilar to.\u201d Therefore, it is followed by an object (usually a noun or pronoun).<\/p>\n<p><b>like\u00a0<\/b>Alice<br \/>\n<b>like\u00a0<\/b>you<\/p>\n<p>Use the preposition\u00a0<b>of\u00a0<\/b>to show possession.<\/p>\n<p>The preposition\u00a0<b>of<\/b>\u00a0is often used to show possession instead of the possessive form of a pronoun.<\/p>\n<p>I hear a puppy&#8217;s bark. OR I hear the bark\u00a0<b>of a puppy.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Never use the preposition\u00a0<b>of<\/b>\u00a0with proper nouns.<\/p>\n<p>I wore the dress of Nina. (Incorrect)<br \/>\nI wore Nina&#8217;s dress. (Correct)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using prepositions correctly presents special problems for people whose first language is not English. That&#8217;s because so many prepositional phrases are idiomatic: They have evolved through use and do not necessarily make logical sense.&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[898,691],"class_list":["post-74180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-preposition","tag-prepositions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74181,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74180\/revisions\/74181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}