One of my most common grammar mistakes that exist in my writing is the wrong usage of prepositions, in particular the usage of prepositions ‘in’ and ‘of’ which causes my language sentences to be rather clumsy and awkward. There are two reasons to why I tend to make these preposition mistakes frequently. One of these reasons is due to my personal carelessness and lack of awareness during my writing process as I am more concern in translating ideas into words while they are still fresh in my mind.
Prepositions are used to link nouns, pronouns and phrases to other words in a sentence. The other reason for my mistake is because the relationship between the object and the rest of the sentence was not as clear and obvious for me to comprehend. For example, “the book is on the table” The preposition used here is obvious in explaining the relationship between the object, which is the book, and the rest of the sentence. However for an example like “resist due to the lack of belief in the worth”, I was often left pondering with the choice of preposition. Therefore in WT1, such mistakes occurred where my paragraph has a sentence like “resist due to the lack in belief of the worth”.
There is a need for prepositions to be used correctly as incorrect usage will result in a total different meaning from the initial we have intended to convey. Taking for example, “that thing was made of” and “that thing was made in” are totally different in meaning where the former refers to the composition that made up the thing and the latter refers to the location in which the thing is made. Therefore we can see that a wrong usage of these “linkages” leads to different outcomes. Linked below is a series of preposition questions which I have tried and they are certainly helpful. Do try the preposition exercises under grammar and dictation.
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I encounter the same problem as you do in writing my essay. I agree that prepositions must be used carefully in order to make our sentences sound logical and grammatically correct. One way to tackle this problem would be to either do more preposition exercises or read more books.
I also agree that using wrong prepositions will make the sentence look funny. One way to improve it is to read more books and see how the prepositions are being use in the book.
I agree with what you have wrote. Remembering about 150 prepositions is really a difficult task. Using it at a right time,with the right word will be much more difficult.
The interesting of prepositions is it will have totally different meaning when you combine with others words.
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