PREPOSITION AND ARTICLE

By: ROSMALIWARNIS, M.Pd

TIU
Setelah perkuliahan ini mahasiswa diharapkan
mampu menggunakan kata depan dan kata
sandang dengan tepat dalam berkomunikasi.
TIK
1. Menyebutkan definisi kata depan dan kata
sandang.
2. Membedakan jenis-jenis kata depan dan kata
sandang.
3. Menggunakan kata depan dan kata sandang
dalam kalimat.
PREPOSITION:
 Prepositions usually come before the words they
control. They indicate various relationships
between words or phrases, the most usual are:
time, position/direction, and mental/emotional
attitudes.
 They can also come after the words they govern,
notably in questions and in relative clauses.
* What can I cut the bread with?
* This is the book I was telling you about.
PREPOSITIONS OF TIME: AT, ON, AND IN

 We use at to designate specific times.

The train is due at 12:15 p.m.
 We use on to designate days and dates.
My brother is coming on Monday.
We're having a party on the Fourth of July.
 We use in for nonspecific times during a day, a
month, a season, or a year.
She likes to jog in the morning.
It's too cold in winter to run outside.
He started the job in 1971.
He's going to quit in August.
PREPOSITIONS OF PLACE: AT, ON, AND IN

 We use at for specific addresses.

My uncle lives at 55 Boretz Road in Durham.
 We use on to designate names of streets,
avenues, etc.
Her house is on Boretz Road.
 And we use in for the names of land-areas
(towns, counties, states, countries, and
continents).
She lives in Durham.
Durham is in Windham County.
Windham County is in Connecticut.
PREPOSITIONS OF LOCATION: IN, AT,
AND ON
AND NO PREPOSITION

IN AT ON NO PREPOSITION
(the) bed* class* the bed* downstairs
*the
You may sometimes
bedroom home use different prepositions
the ceiling downtown for
these
the car locations.
the library* the floor inside
(the) class* the office the horse outside
the library* school* the plane upstairs
school* work the train uptown
PREPOSITIONS OF MOVEMENT: TO
AND NO PREPOSITION

 We use to in order to express movement toward

a place.
They were driving to work together.
She's going to the dentist's office this morning.
 Toward and towards are also helpful
prepositions to express movement. These are
simply variant spellings of the same word; use
whichever sounds better to you.
We're moving toward the light.
This is a big step towards the project's completion.
 With the words home, downtown, uptown,
inside, outside, downstairs, upstairs, we use no
preposition.
Grandma went upstairs
Grandpa went home.
They both went outside.
PREPOSITIONS OF TIME: FOR AND SINCE

 We use for when we measure time (seconds,

minutes, hours, days, months, years).
He held his breath for seven minutes.
She's lived there for seven years.
The British and Irish have been quarreling for
seven centuries.
 We use since with a specific date or time.
He's worked here since 1970.
She's been sitting in the waiting room since two-
thirty.
PREPOSITIONS WITH NOUNS, ADJECTIVES, AND
VERBS.

Prepositions are sometimes so firmly wedded to

other words that they have practically become
one word. This occurs in three categories: nouns,
adjectives, and verbs.
NOUNS AND PREPOSITIONS

approval of fondness for need for

awareness of grasp of participation
belief in hatred of in
concern for hope for reason for
confusion interest in respect for
about love of success in
desire for understandin
g of
ADJECTIVES AND PREPOSITIONS

afraid of fond of proud of

angry at happy similar to
aware of about sorry for
capable of interested sure of
careless in tired of
about jealous of worried
familiar made of about
with married to
VERBS AND PREPOSITIONS
apologize for give up prepare for
ask about grow up study for
ask for look for talk about
belong to look forward to think about
bring up look up trust in
care for make up work for
find out pay for worry about

 A combination of verb and preposition is called

a phrasal verb. The word that is joined to the verb
is then called a particle. Please refer to the brief
section we have prepared on phrasal verbs for an
explanation
THE ARTICLES
 The three articles — a, an, the — are a kind
of adjective.
 The is called the definite article because it usually
precedes a specific or previously mentioned noun;
 a and an are called indefinite articles because they
are used to refer to something in a less specific manner
(an unspecified count noun). These words are also
listed among the noun
markers or determiners because they are almost
invariably followed by a noun (or something else acting
as a noun).
 The is used with specific nouns. The is required when
the noun it refers to represents something that is one
of a kind:
The moon circles the earth.
 The is required when the noun it refers to represents
something in the abstract:
The United States has encouraged the use
of the private automobile as opposed to the use of
public transit.
 The is required when the noun it refers to represents
something named earlier in the text.
 We use a before singular count-nouns that begin with
consonants (a cow, a barn, a sheep);
 We use an before singular count-nouns that begin with
vowels or vowel-like sounds (an apple, an urban blight, an
open door).
 Words that begin with an h sound often require an a (as
in a horse, a history book, a hotel), but if an h-word begins
with an actual vowel sound, use an an (as
in an hour, an honor).
 We would say a useful device and a union matter because
the u of those words actually sounds like yoo (as opposed,
say, to the u of an ugly incident). The same is true
of a European and a Euro (because of that consonantal
"Yoo" sound).
 We would say a once-in-a-lifetime experience or a one-time
hero because the words once and one begin with a w sound.
ZERO ARTICLES:
 Several kinds of nouns never use articles. We do
not use articles with the names of languages ("He
was learning Chinese." [But when the word
Chinese refers to the people, the definite article
might come: "The Chinese are hoping to get the
next Olympics."]), the names of sports ("She plays
badminton and basketball."), and academic
subjects ("She's taking economics and math. Her
major is Religious Studies.")
EXERCISE
Put in suitable preposition:
1. We don’t go ... school ... Sunday.
2. Wait ... me ... the bus-stop!
3. We arrived ... Winchester ... Exactly six o’clock.
4. Come ... 10 ... Friday morning.
5. ... President enters ... Meeting room.
6. George reads history’s book. ... book is very big.
7. I waited for him about ... Hour.
8. Mary speaks ... English.
9. ... husband is ... man.
10. ... fly is ... insect.
That’s all
•Thank you

•See you!