English Prepositions List

What is a preposition?

Prepositions are words that show direction, location, time, and the spatial relationship between objects.

Prepositions are followed by an object in a sentence, which can be a noun or a pronoun. Although there may be other words between them, a prepositional phrase begins with a preposition and ends with a noun or pronoun, acting as the object.

Many prepositions have nearly the exact same meaning. This makes them tricky to use properly unless you read or listen to a lot of English. There aren’t always specific rules to memorize so much as phrases and learning which prepositions go with which words.

A Simple Preposition List

Nearly half of the prepositions you use in the English language are “simple” words. Simple words mainly have one or two syllables and connect words in a sentence. Here’s a list of common English Prepositions:

About	Above	Across	After	Ago
At	Below	By	Down	During
For	From	In	Into	Off
On	Over	Past	Since	Through
To	Under	Until	Up	With

There are around 150 prepositions in the English language, and we’re going to list all of them we could find. They are broken down into categories of prepositions, based on how that type of preposition functions.

List of Prepositions of Place

Prepositions of place are ones that tell where one thing is in space compared to another. The list of place words is very similar to the list of time words. In fact, they share much of the same language.

1	Aboard	19	Far	37	On board
2	Above	20	Far from	38	On top of
3	Across	21	Forward of	39	Onto
4	Against	22	From	40	Upon
5	Alongside	23	In	41	Opposite
6	Amid	24	In between	42	Out
7	Among	25	In front of	43	Out of
8	Apart from	26	Inside	44	Outside
9	Astride	27	Into	45	Outside of
10	At	28	Minus	46	Over
11	Atop	29	Near	47	Round
12	Behind	30	Near to	48	Through
13	Below	31	Next to	49	Throughout
14	Beneath	32	Of	50	To
15	Beside	33	Off	51	Together with
16	Between	34	On	52	Toward/towards
17	Beyond	35	On board	53	Whether this…
18	By	36	On top of	54	Under

List of Prepositions of time

Prepositions of time are prepositions that we use to indicate something’s relationship with time. Also with these words, you can describe when something will or did happen.

1	About	8	Circa	15	On
2	After	9	During	16	Past
3	Ago	10	Following	17	Prior to
4	Around	11	For	18	Since
5	At	12	From	19	Until/till
6	Before	13	Gone	20	Up to
7	By	14	In	21	Up until

List of Prepositions of phrase

A prepositional phrase list includes groups (known as phrases) of different words that together act as a connecting word. The group/phrase can contain verbs, adverbs, and other parts of speech.

1	As far as	4	As well as	7	In spite of
2	As long as	5	In addition to	8	On top of
3	As soon as	6	In regard to	9	With regard to