A contrastive study of prepositions in english and spoken arabic in lower zab villages

Abstract EN

Prepositions express certain relations between two parts of a sentence.

The phrase following the preposition is called its complement.

In English, morphologically two kinds of prepositions are distinguishing; simple and complex.

A simple prepositions consist of one word: in , on , after, before.

Complex prepositions consist of one more than one word; a part from, instead of , in view of , in case of.

The research paper aims at pointing out the similarities and differences in both languages standard English and colloquial Arabic spoken in lower Zab villages.

Both languages will be contrasted so as to stand upon the main similarities and differences.

A worthnote point to be mentioned; not to fear of colloquial dialects and accents since the standard Arabic is still existed and used in different situations.

Data is collected of informants from the area; they are typical Arabic speakers.

In conclusion: contrasting both language will reveal similarities and differences of preposition in position whether they are postponed or fixed.

Conclusions, will be obtained from data analysis.