The Ins and Outs of Prepositions: A Guidebook for ESL Students

by Jean Yates

Book Overview

Though written primarily for students of English as a Second Language, The Ins and Outs of Prepositions is also useful in remedial English courses on high school and college freshman levels. Unlike... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0764107577
• ISBN13: 9780764107573
• Release Date: April 1999
• Publisher: Barrons Educational Series
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.8" x 10.8"

Customer Reviews

Must for all English teachers

This book is very helpful for all those who teach English - those who teach native speakers as well as those who teach ESL. As well, this book is also a must for anyone who is still confused by our massive use of non-standard uses of prepositions, such as "about the house", "I will go see her about that." As a teacher of English to non-native speakers, my students were always telling me that they found prepositions confusing - when to use "to,at,on." This book clears up all this and more. A must.

Prepositions Clarified

So why exactly do we say "in" the car but "on" the plane? For the ESL learner, as well as the curious and uncertain native English speaker, this books simplifies a great deal of that part of speech which trips many of us up. If you "HAVE TO KNOW" the rules as to why something is used a certain way, this book does that too. If all you want to know is which preposition is correct without the history of the English language tagging along, this book scores here also. It offers sixty some-odd prepositions, arranged alphabetically, with simplified models and words grouped together that suit that preposition. The book can easily be incorporated directly into a lesson plan or modeled for students self directed use. Moderately priced, I opted for a class set just to have on hand when we start fine tuning our paragraph work.