Prepositions and prepositional phrases

Cristina Pinho from Brazil wonders if she has worked 'as' or 'like' a dog

Trudi Faulkner-Petrova explains the difference between the phrases 'in the end' and 'at the end' Ask about English 1 September 2009

Roger Woodham answers all your questions about these confusing little words

Find out if you are 'in' the bank when you are 'at' the bank

Ilham Sarukhanov from Azerbaijan asks why his mother waits 'at home' if he will be late 'home'

They can all give reasons, but which two also refer to time?

In these pairs of words, which ones are different in meaning?

Pierre from Malaysia discovers he can't say he is 'busy about' his work

L S Ng from Singapore finds out what 'but' means in 'All but two of the boys are coming'.

Lilia from Bulgaria asks 'When do we use by and when do we use from?'

Find out how these words are used with different sentence structures

Roger Woodham answers questions from France and Poland about these prepositions

Roger Woodham explains the subtle, but important, difference between 'for' and 'during'

Alex from Spain confuses these two words when he wants to say why he does something

Lim Chiu Lan from Malaysia doesn't know if we say someone is 'good at English' or 'good in English'

Trudi Faulkner-Petrova explains the difference between these two phrases

Anthony from Malta wonders whether he lives 'in Gozo' or 'at Gozo'

Trudi Faulkner-Petrova explains the meaning and use of the expression

Gareth Rees explains two expressions with 'hand'

M Peres from Brazil would like to know the differences in the use of these words

Like many other students, Jose Luis Luque would like to know more about 'like'

Why do we say 'paper is made from trees' but 'shirts are made of cotton?

Is there a difference between 'meet' and meet with'? Martin Parrot answers.

Tamas from Hungary is confused to find 'we have two weeks off school'

Cecile Arnould from Belgium has been thinking about the difference between these two phrases.

Learn about the many prepositions used in time expressions

Roger Woodham explains which words you can use with different times

Is it possible to say 'It happened Friday' rather than 'It happened on Friday'?

Cindy from Taiwan asks for a comparison of 'under', 'below' and 'beneath'.

With regard to these and other words, Roger Woodham talks about focussing attention on a topic.