ABSTRACT
The long-term goal is for students to understand that prepositions help writers add detail to their writing, answering readers’ questions of where and when, grounding readers in space and time. The authors know, “I thought you said adverbs answer the questions where and when!” You’re right; they do. So how do we know the difference between them? First of all, what matters is that writers are adding details of where and when to their writing—whatever you call the words they use to do it. But if we oversimplify things a bit, you’ll easily see the overlap and the subtle differences between them. In short, adverbsadd to verbs, and prepositionsshow relationships between nouns and other parts of speech.
