Preposition List

There are more than 100 prepositions in English. Yet this is a very small number when you think of the thousands of other words (nouns, verbs etc). Prepositions are important words. We use individual prepositions more frequently than other individual words. In fact, the prepositions of, to and in are among the ten most frequent words in English. Here is a list of 70 of the more common one-word prepositions. Many of these prepositions have more than one meaning. Please refer to a dictionary for precise meaning and usage

 

aboard

beyond

 round

about

but

 save

above

by

since

across

concerning

than

after

from

through

against

like

to

along

minus

toward

amid

near

towards

among

of

under

around

off

underneath

as

on

unlike

at

onto

until

before

opposite

up

behind

outside

upon

below

over

versus

beneath

past

via

beside

per

with

besides

plus

within

between

regarding

without