PREPOSITION

PREPOSITION (KATADEPAN)

Preposition (kata dpan) adalah suatu kata yang digunakan sebelum kata benda. Kata depan ini termasuk kat-kata yang dikecualikan (Exceptional words), maksudnya bila kat-kat ini digunakan dengan kata kerja maka kata kerjanya harus dalam bentuk “Ing” atau dalam bentuk “Gerund” dan arti kata kerjanya tidak berubah dan apabila kata-kata ini diikuti subjek maka setelah subjek harus diikuti verb (kata kerja bentuk 1) bukan “Gerund”

With                = Dengan

In                     = Di dalam

About              = Tentang

From                = Dari

After               = Setelah

Before             = Sebelum

Without           = Tanpa

Because of      = Disebabkan

While               = Sewaktu

By                   = Melalui / Dengan cara

For                   = Untuk / atas

Example:

• I shall go home after learning English

      I shall go home after I learn English

• While learning, I don’t want to play

While I learn, I don’t want to play

• I don’t want  play while praying

I don’t want to play while I pray

• Without studying, we can’t read well
• We need more drills in pronouncing English

a.       Place (In, on, at)

Remember that in, on, and at have similar meanings, but they are used with different kinds of places. In general, in used before large places, on is used before middle – size places, and at is used before numbers in addresses. Finally, in is used again before very small places.

            IN Country      ON Street                  AT Number                IN A corner

     State                    Street corner                                           (of a room)

                 Province              Coast                                                      a room

                 County                River                                                      a building

                 City                                 A ship                                                     a park

                                             A train                                                    a car

                                             A plane                                                   a boat

      Example:

·         We live in the United States in North Carolina in Jacksonville

·         Is Domino’s pizza on Tenth Street?

·         We are going to stay overnight in Chicago

b.      Time (in, on, at)

Remember that in, on, at have similar meanings, but they are used with different times. In general, in is used before large units of time, on is used before middle- sized units of time, and at is used before numbers in clock time. Idiomatic phrases such ass in the morning, in the afternoon, in the evening, at night, at noon, must be learned in individually like vocabulary, avoid using in before days and dates.

In Year                        On Day                                   At Time

     Month                          Date

     

Example:

·         Lily was born in 1919 in December on Sunday at 7.00

·         I would rather take classes in the afternoon

·         The graduation is on May 20

·         The rainy season begins in July

·         Gloria has a part time job at night

·         We came to the United States in 1987