I'm adam in today's video, I want to answer a very common question that I hear from people from all of you guys in the comment section.

Why are prepositions so hard?

How can I study prepositions?

So today's video is going to give you a bit of an idea of why they're so hard and what you can start doing to try to improve your use of prepositions.

And yes, prepositions do make a big difference because there are very little words, but they can completely change the meaning of an expression or sentence and so on.

So the first thing I want to look at our three different ways to approach prepositions.

One is direct call locations words that are working together that sometimes have a different meaning.

So for example we have in house with a hyphen, this is going to be used as an adjective compared to outhouse, which is one word that joins the two words on the house and something is housed in something else.

So I have four expressions here within out on and in with completely different meanings and no real way of guessing and that's the hard part about prepositions.

So, in house.

So for example, some companies hire an in house social media manager instead of getting somebody outside like a freelancer or to outsource something, they hire somebody full time to run their social media pages right?

Or channels.

So this person is an in house employee, works inside out house.

Now, if you can think of this as an in house employee, what is an outhouse now completely, I'm sure you can't guess an outhouse is a toilet, it's a toilet that is actually outside, it's not inside the house.

So especially if you're going to go camping or you're gonna go to like some cottage or cabin, a lot of these buildings are, a lot of these houses won't have a toilet inside the house, They have a little hut outside or like just basically a box with a hole in the ground and that's where you go to the toilet and that is called an outhouse and it's one word.

So if you think you can guess one and guess the opposite.

No, completely unrelated.

So you have to be a little bit careful about that on the house doesn't mean like on top of the house, it actually has nothing to do with house.

On the house means free, but usually at a restaurant or a bar or anywhere that charges for a service.

So if you go to the bartender and you chat the bartender up and you have a nice time, the bartender will be nice and say now this drink is on the house means you don't have to pay for it.

The house means the place, the establishment, the business, the business will pay for it, they will take the charge.

It's on them.

Right?

So on the house.

Now, here houses different houses.

A verb basically means to, to be like a container to something.

So something is housed in something means it is inside this container.

Right?

So now here's one expression, one situation where you have completely unknown guessable uh call locations or idioms in some cases.

Now here I have a few expressions with time.

Now in the first examples in time on time at the time, all of the uses of time are the same and then you have to understand the difference of in on at like you do with other situations with prepositions, especially with time time prepositions.

So if you if something is in time, if you do something in time, it means before the limit of time that you have.

Right?

So the project has to be finished in time so that we can can start the next phase of it.

For example, right?

It has to finish on time means at the set time.

So in time you have for example you have this much time to work on it in time means somewhere here On time means here at the at the last spot or a specific spot that you set at the time means at that specific time, not not before or after exactly the same on time.

At the time are similar but you're going to use them differently, right?

A project has to finish on time and at that time or at the time we will begin phase two.

So on time, usually like a deadline at the time is a specific time, you can do whatever you want with.

So a little bit confusing because the time doesn't change, it's how you're using it with all these other preposition that changes and then you have out of time means time is finished no more time by the time.

So at this time or before right with time.

So any pain you have any if you if somebody broke up with you and your heart is broken with time it will mend right?

So over some time over a period of time and I didn't write that here over time or with time things will get better right and there's another one over and with until such a time time out like again I'm gonna take a little break or time out in the game.

You have a time out where you take a pause Overtime overtime, right?

So there's over the time but when you put them together now you're going beyond the scheduled time.

So if you work overtime at work you finished your 40 hours for the week.

Now you're working extra in a game that is finished with a tie.

They play a little extra time or a little over time to decide.

Now the scary thing is I can give you at least another dozen maybe even 20 more expressions with time with different prepositions.

So the key is just to understand the use of the word time here.

You don't need to know the word house, you need to know the whole expression here.

You need to use the word time and then see how it's being used with the different prepositions.

And then as you add more expressions you can you can start to understand the actual call location.

So if somebody says to you for example, it's about time, it's they're not talking about time, time is not the subject of a conversation, it's or it is about time means they're very frustrated, they've been waiting a long time and finally you came, it's about time that you came etcetera.

So I'll get back to this in a minute and then there's the last one.

Now agree to agree with a lot of people confuse these types of call locations with phrase all verbs.

These are not phrase all verbs, these are just ka locations where you're using a certain verb with a certain preposition for a certain purpose.

So if you agree to then you still agree.

You agree to do something or you agree to the demands of the company means you accept right, but you're generally agreeing with to do something, agree with means, share an opinion or agree with the rules, agree with someone means you share an understanding that you accept the same thing, so very similar, agree about again.

Now you there's a specific topic and you have agreement so they agree doesn't change what comes after the preposition changes to suit the purpose, right?

So this is where it becomes a little bit tricky here.

The preposition changes in reaction to time, what and what's happening here.

The preposition changes in reaction to what comes after two the purpose or the target of the agreement and so on, agree on.

So we agree on the timing for the project to be completed for example, so and agree in will generally take something else.

You agree in principle, you agree in writing.

So just just because I say I agree with you in a legal context, doesn't mean anything.

If we agree in writing means we wrote it out and both signed it, then we have an agreement.

Right?

So the reason I'm showing you the three different ways to look at prepositions is so that you can start collecting these call locations like keep them in the notebook.

So you have to study these like vocabulary Of course I know the difference between and on at for from etcetera over under, next to between etcetera, know all of those in their functions but start collecting call locations that are idiomatic ka locations that are just ka locations and ka locations that work before and after the main verb and also remember it doesn't have to be a verb.

It could be a noun or a verb right time out, agree to the verb, the noun, the adjective, the preposition start learning all of these different call locations and then you'll see that you can start making different expressions as well.

Okay.

and that's basically it.

Now, the main thing is also to realize that you can a lot of it comes from just listening to native speakers or listening to tv shows and movies.

Start paying attention to the use of the prepositions and especially in writing when you're writing these prepositions, small mistakes, can you lead to huge misunderstandings so make sure you know how to use them correctly.

Now you can also go to my other channel right to top dot com on, you can watch on Youtube.

I do have a few lessons showing you more of these complications and it will help you with your writing as well.

If you have any questions about these, please ask them in the Youtube comment section or in the in vid dot com uh comments area, take the quiz and come back soon and we'll do this again and I'll show you some more interesting call locations like these.