“THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL ASPECTS OF PREPOSITIONS IN MODERN ENGLISH”

MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND SCIENCE, YOUTH AND SPORTS OF UKRAINE
KYIV NATIONAL LINGUISTIC UNIVERSITY

COURSE PAPER
“THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL ASPECTS OF PREPOSITIONS IN MODERN ENGLISH”

Student: Anna Klymenko group 24-09 research advisor: Cand. of Linguistics, Associate Prof. L.M.Volkova

Kyiv – 2013

CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION………………………………………………………………3
CHAPTER 1. FUNCTION WORDS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. PREPOSITIONS IN MODERN ENGLISH……….………….5
1.1. Function words in the English language………………….….5
1.2. Prepositions as a part of function words in Modern English. Classification of prepositions……………………………………..8
CHAPTER 2. THE PRACTICAL USE OF PREPOSITIONS………….…..10 2.1. Preposition combinations………………………………......10
2.2. Interesting Preposition exercises…….……………………...12
CONCLUSIONS………………………………………………………………..14
RESUME………………………………………………………………………...15
BIBLIOGRAPHY…………………………………………………………........17
APPLICATIONS……………………………………………………………….20

INTRODUCTION
There are about 150 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. Many of prepositions have more than one meaning.
Prepositions pose more problems for the non-native speaker or learner of English than any other part of speech. Why? Prepositions are just little words

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