The 10 Most Frequent Preposition Mistakes in English

Almost every language learner struggles with prepositions. This is perfectly normal because when we are learning a new language, we want to transfer the rules and phrases from our first language to our new language. This works sometimes - but not always! Should you say “I listen to music”, or “I listen music”? Is the correct sentence “He went to home”, or “He went home”? These are just two of the common confusions that I discuss in this essential English grammar lesson. What about “married to” vs. “married with”? “For” or “during”? “Depend of” or “depend on”? Watch this video to find out if you make any of these ten frequent English preposition mistakes. To review this lesson in greater detail, read the article that I wrote about it: www.englishalex.com/post/begi...
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In this video:
00:00 10 Common Preposition Mistakes
01:50 listen to
02:39 depend on
03:20 it depends
03:50 to + verb
04:56 married to
05:34 for + durations of time
06:47 possessive apostrophes vs. "of" possessives
08:20 good at
09:44 go home
10:35 enter + a place
11:17 been to

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Thanks for watching, everyone! For more examples and explanation, read my blog post: www.englishalex.com/post/beginner-english-10-most-frequent-english-preposition-mistakes-audio-gifs-and-practice-included

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Sir, Would you please explain the difference between 'depends on' and 'depends upon' ?

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Yes, this sounds fine, though I’d need to see the rest of the context. Something like this sounds possible to me: “To be eligible for that position, you need to have been a professor with at least 5 years of post-secondary experience.”

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Sir, is depend on a phrasal verb?

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Yes. It is a combination of a verb and a preposition, and it has an idiomatic meaning. Some might just call it a prepositional verb (similar to “listen to” and “agree with”), but because of its idiomatic usage, I consider it a phrasal verb.

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Sir, Can we say ' It depends upon the situation.' ?

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Yes! This is also perfectly fine. It sounds slightly more formal, but it’s acceptable.

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Reply to someone Answer someone Ask someone Tell someone Speak to someone Say [something] to someone Listen to someone Hear someone 😨

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English prepositions all mean approximately the same thing. In America, traffic signs state “drive IN your lane” when correct is “drive ON your lane” Philippines knows English better than Americans because their traffic signs correctly use ON. Tagalog has two prepositions, Saan and Nasaan. English with hundreds of prepositions should follow their lead rather than poor kids having to listen to English profs drone on about subtle and confusing differences in the unnecessarily large quantity of prepositions

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