English Grammar Preposition List

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. Here is a short list of 70 of the more common one-word prepositions. Many of these prepositions have more than one meaning. Please refer to a dictionary for precise meaning and usage.

1. aboard	2. about	3. above	4. across
5. after	6. against	7. along	8. amid
9. among	10. anti	11. around	12. as
13. at	14. before	15. behind	16. below
17. beneath	18. beside	19. besides	20. between
21. beyond	22. but	23. by	24. concerning
25. considering	26. despite	27. down	28. during
29. except	30. excepting	31. excluding	32. following
33. for	34. from	35. in	36. inside
37. into	38. like	39. minus	40. near
41. of	42. off	43. on	44. onto
45. opposite	46. outside	47. over	48. past
49. per	50. plus	51. regarding	52. round
53. save	54. since	55. than	56. through
57. to	58. toward	59. towards	60. under
61. underneath	62. unlike	63. until	64. up
65. upon	66. versus	67. via	68. with
69. within	70. without	...	...