Topics

Present

Past

Past to Present

Future

Abilities - Responsibilities

Asking Questions

Choosing the Right Phrase

Combining Verbs

Explaining Ideas

Describing Your World

Complex Ideas

Relating Ideas, People, Objects

Speaking about Objects

Wondering about Situations

At the Office

Prepositions of Place, Similarity and Function

Use 'in' with countries, cities, towns and regions.

Example:

The shaping software was designed in Colorado.

He designed the clipboard application used in Australia.

Use 'at' for place in a city, town or village.

Example:

I'll launch this shareware program at the conference hall.

I'll design the new shell at the library.

Like and As

Use 'like' as a preposition to express that two are objects are similar in some characteristic.

Example:

That looks like a shortcut.

This painting of cyberspace looks like a set from the movie Tron.

Use 'as' to express the function that a person takes in an organization.

Example:

Tom works as a quality control representative that comments out code.

Richard works as a snail-mail carrier or as a mailman.