ABSTRACT

In this chapter prepositions are treated in alphabetical order and special emphasis has been given to aspects of prepositional usage likely to be unfamiliar to Englishspeakers. The following prepositions are discussed:

Many of these can be combined with other words to form prepositional phrases such as debajo de 'underneath', frente a 'opposite', a raz6n de 'at the rate of', etc. A list of common prepositional phrases is included at 34.19.