Descriptive Grammar – 2S, 2016 Mrs. Belén Berríos Droguett

  Prepositions introduce PP (prepositional phrases)  They can express relation of: possession, place, time, etc.  In a PP, after the preposition it usually comes an NP:  on the table  About the friends  If it is linking a complement to the rest of a sentence, this can be placed in any part of the sentence  In the library, I found the book  I found the book in the library Function

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  There can be some subclasses which can be used to divide prepositions in smaller groups, such as:  Preposition of time  Preposition of place  Preposition of direction/movement  These are helpful to organize them but they are not quite relevant to the analysis  Also, it is important to remember that certain adverbs and preposition share form, especially place and direction:  He ran down the stairs  She sat down Form