PREPOSITIONS

- Do not denote any specific meaning, but different types of relationship between different linguistic units
- They have a different meaning in different context
- Primarily grammatical words ® express grammatical relations
- Lexical-grammatical use in language

· Lexical-morphology of prepositions:

1. Simple many of them occur in the class of adverbs
(at, by, in, of, down, up, from)

2. Participial derived from participles of verbs
(considering, regarding, concerning, notwithstanding = navzdory)

3. Compound (within, outside, underneath, throughout)

4. Two-word written as two words, but in text considered to be one preposition
combination of preposition, adjective, adverb, conjunction + preposition
(along with, except for, but for, instead of, because of, near to, far from)

5. Three-word in the text considered to be one because they express one type of meaning
preposition + noun, adjective + preposition
(by way of, by means of, on behalf of, in view of, on account of, in front of)