Australia is an island country, which means that it is surrounded by water. The coastline of Australia is over 30,000 kilometres long. In this lesson, you will test your understanding of prepositions ...

Prepositions may be small words, but they cause big headaches for English learners at every level. From mixing up 'in' and 'on' to pairing the wrong preposition with a verb, these slip-ups can confuse ...

Those lists will probably be very familiar to people who have been learning Irish recently. They are a pain to learn but they are very useful on a number of levels. I don’t believe that one language ...

Enter into This is another example of prepositional tautology when it means going into a place like a house, room or car. The preposition ‘into’ is redundant and, indeed, useless in the expression.

In these examples, down and back are not prepositions but function as adverbs to extend or change the meaning of the verb. This combination of verb and adverb is always known as a phrasal verb. Note ...