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While conjunctions link in a fairly straightforward way, prepositions link by relating verbs to nouns, pronouns and noun phrases. In particular they unite two sentence elements in such a way as to provide extra information about space, time, and reason:

Judith travelled to New York in a 747 and flew through a storm.

Lawrence went down to the beach at noon.

Lizzie went to the arcade for a new swimsuit.

We use prepositions constantly (try getting through a day without using as, by, in, on, to and up, to name just a few!) and misuse them occasionally. Should you, for example, end a sentence with a preposition? The answer, and more about this interesting member of the grammatical glue family, will be found on page 146.