English prepositions : new perspectives

Abstract EN

Prepositions are short words used to link certain components to indicate specific meanings.

They are difficult sometimes for even the advanced learners especially when it is a matter of translation because the uses differ between the mother tongue and the learned language.

Prepositions are very important to provide adequate meaning and help in mutual understanding among speakers or people involved; therefore, the requirement for awareness of their uses is a prerequisite to any person seeks to present refined language.

Consequently, the research would handle matters of great importance in relation to this area.

It is hard if it is not impossible to imagine that language users can continue communicating exposing different topics with out the use of the vivid components which are called “prepositions”.

And it is worth mentioning there are about 150 prepositions in English (John and Richard, 1984, p209), though it is a very small number when thinking about the thousands of other words like nouns, verbs, …etc, but they have special state in co working with other components; and this is what the research is behind.