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Yunus Posted 21 years ago
Grammar

Does anybody explain me? prepositions

for example: at, in, on, .
  

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Hello, Yunus-- welcome to English Forums. Prepositions do many things, but these three -- at, in, on-- indicate location mostly: My hat is at the milliner's. My hat is in the wastebasket.

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Hello, Yunus-- welcome to English Forums.

Prepositions do many things, but these three -- at, in, on-- indicate location mostly:

My hat is at the milliner's.
My hat is in the wastebasket.
My hat is on the top shelf.

Anything else we can help you with?

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Thanks you for your reply...
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Could you please tell me when to use me or I?

I received the following message from an Australian native speaker:

...This is exciting, not only for Sue but for you and I too ...... (I thought it was me in this
case)
I too of course am really looking forward
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Hi Monika,


The solution is that 'I' is a subject pronoun and 'me' is an object pronoun.

'This is exciting, not only for Sue but for you and me too.' -- 'you and me' is the object of the preposition 'for'.

'I too of course am really looking forward to...' -- 'I' is the subject of the verb 'am...looking'.

'Me too' is acceptable in cas
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Hello Yunus. Thanks for your question about prepositions. I think the other member of this forum did an excellent job of explaining prepositions to you. Do you have any other questions?
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Thanks Lynlianna

Yes i have other questions. i'm confusing about the.
How can we use it or where can we use "the"?

You think, which one is correct?

i like reading the book.
or
i like reading book

or other sentences
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The two main uses of the definite article, 'the', are (1) with nouns which have been mentioned previously in the sentence/conversation:

'I saw Terminator 3 last night. The movie was very exciting.'

-- and (2) with nouns which are specific:

'I saw Terminator 3 last night. The lead actor was very big. (There is usually only one lead actor
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For a more in depth discussion of the issue of,

"... This is exciting, not only for Sue but for you and I too"

see the thread, "Coordinative Constructions" in the Linguistic Discussion Forum.