Prepositions and how to use them

Prepositions
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Prepositions of Place


At (specific location) She lives at 211 White St.

On (surface location) She lives on White St.
She is sitting on the chair. (no arms)

In (interior location) She lives in 200 block of White Street.
She is sitting in the chair. (arms)

By (moving closeness) He walked by my desk.

Near (stationary closeness) His house is near mine.

Nearby (intimate close feeling) He lives nearby.

Beside (very intimate close feeling) Come sit beside me.

Next to (on the side of) He lives next to me.

Against (opposite touching/pushing) She is leaning against the wall.

Between (1 in the middle of 2) She is sitting between Jane and Julie.

Among (1 in a group of 3+) She is sitting among Jane, Julie, and Mark.

Amid/Amidst (old form of among) He is standing amidst the crowd.

Inside (closed inner Position) The papers are inside the briefcase.

Outside (open outer position) The customer walked outside the door.

Around (indefinite location) The letter must be around here somewhere.

Across (position facing directly opposite with space between) She lives across from me.

Beneath (low down and in front of so there is a view of below) The sofa is beneath the picture.

Underneath (low down and in-between, layered, or touching) The mother put the child underneath the bedcovers.
The red file is underneath the green one.
The birthday cake's layers were underneath a lot of frosting.

"Catty-Corner" (diagonally across from) Her office is catty-cornered from mine.

Up (a higher position) He lives up North.

Down (a lower position) He lives down South.

Behind/in back of (a place sequenced from the back of something)
The file is behind Mr. Brown's file.
He is standing behind me.

Before/in front of (a place sequenced from the front of something)
She put the food before me.
She stood in front of me.

At the top of (specific point up or the highest rank or order, horizontal) The date is at the top of the page.
He is at the top of his profession.

At the bottom of (specific point location down or the lowest rank, order, horizontal) She signed her name at the bottom of the letter.
He is at the bottom of the reading class.

On the top of (vertical dimensional surface location up) The report was on the top of the file cabinet.

On the bottom of (vertical dimensional surface location down) The chewing gum was on the bottom of his shoe.

In the middle of (the middle area of something) The answer was in the middle of the paragraph.

In the bottom of (the lowest area of something) The ice was in the bottom of the glass.

In the top of (the highest area of something) He graduated in the top of his class.

Over (directly up, vertical position) The umbrella was over us in the rain.

Above (higher up, horizontal position) The ceiling is above us.

Under (directly down, vertical position) We walked under the umbrella in the rain.

Below (lower down, horizontal position We are below the ceiling.