20/02/2018
How to learn the prepositions of the English language?
Think carefully! Do you know the rules for using the Portuguese prepositions? Have you stopped to think about it !?
"On" before the days of the week - Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, etc;
"In" before two months - January, February, March, April, etc;
"At" before hours - 7:30, 5:40, 10:00, etc.
Unfortunately, most of the time it is simply impossible to try to find a logic: in Portuguese we say "depend on"; in English nothing to say "depend of", the correct one is "depend on"; "Dream about", "dream about" or, depending on the case, "dream of". In other cases we use prepositions and they do not: "I'm scared", "I'm afraid"; "I like ...", "I like ..." Or vice versa, "listen", "listen to".
They still often use prepositions just to give a certain expressiveness in the way they speak. That is, there is nothing wrong with "come to my house some time" (come to my house one of these days), but to be more natural it is better to say "come on over to my house".
This only learns from time, from life, from language. It's no use wanting to decorate! We simply have to listen and read a lot. You will never find all the information in a book! Some prepositions can be learned by certain rules and peculiarities; however, the ideal is that by finding a preposition in a text you see how it is being used. Notice if there is anything special about its use. If you notice something interesting and interesting, write it down in your notebook and try to make use of what you have learned.
An example of this is: "get on the bus" and "get in the taxi", "get on a bus" and "get in a taxi", respectively. Note that with bus it is said to "get on"; with taxi, "get in". Each means of transport requires a different preposition: "on" or "in". This is what you should pay attention to. It's no use wanting to know why this is so and not roast. The business is to put this - the whole expression, the combination of words - into memory, to use and ready. Learn what "get on the bus" and "get in the taxi" is.
That's all for now, guys! Take care!