Prepositions - Unit 01

Prepositions uses.

A preposition describes a relationship between words in a sentance. In english as in spanish, there are a lot of uses for prepositions.
for example

1. Prepositions for TIME

There are three prepositions of time : at, in, on.

We use at for hours, for a specific time.

example : I will be here at 6 p.m.

We use on for days and dates.
examples : Maria´s birthday is on Friday.  
                They ´ll have the meeting on Nov 12th
We use in for weeks, monts, years, seasons, during the day.
examples : She´ll go to the beach in a week.
                  He died in 2001.
                  Ana went to the gym in the morning.

Prepositions Exceptions

There are some exceptions for these rules
If we are going to refere for a speficic period of time, we use in.
                 I will arrive in 10 minutes.
Also if we are talking about things that we will do during the day, and we want to refer about evening, we have to use at.
                I´ll go out at night
 We have also others prepositions about the time.

We use since when we talk about a specific time

example : I have been working here since 2012.

We use for when we measure time

example : She lived in that house for four months.

      2. Prepositions of PLACE

We have a lot for refering a specific place... in the picture above we have some of them, also we have at, in, on. These prepositions have differents uses for example for time and places.

We use at for a specific address.

example : I work at Banco Nacional.

We use on for districts and street´s names.
examples : Ana´s house is on NY street.  

We use in for names of land-areas.
examples : She lives in San Jose.

      3. Prepositions with ADJECTIVES, VERBS.

There are some verbs, adjetives and verbs that are follow by a preposition.

--Adjectives follow by prepositions.

examples

Ana´s dog is really familiar with yours.

I was angry at you.

He was sorry for didn't go to your party.

I am too worried about the exam.

--Verbs follow by prepositions.

Verbs follow by prepositions are called phrasal verbs. It is a verb that has different meanings, according to the preposition that follow the verb, its meaning changes.

examples

I´m taking off, bye.

After two hours, she found out her keys.

Pedro trusts in her brother.

Reflections

It is really important to learn how to use prepositions... prepositions are a fundamental part of any language.. in english prepositions have different uses, we can use one in a lot scenarios, some prepositions have special rules that we have to follow for speaking grammatically correct, 
It is really important to identify when we have to use a preposition...  there are some sentences that don´t need it but some others need one.
As we saw at the beggining there are some steps which are so important to know, the funtion of prepositions is to help us to speak with more fluency.