Después de aprender American Slang, en esta lección aprenderemos Prepositions of movement.
Las Prepositions of Movement muestran el movimiento de un lugar a otro. Estas preposiciones siempre describen movimiento y generalmente las usamos con verbos de movimiento.
La preposición de movimiento más común es la preposición to, que describe el movimiento en la dirección de algo, por ejemplo:
- How do you go to work?
- He drove to London in five hours.
- Nobody came to the party 🙁
Prepositions of Movement list
Aquí hay una lista de las Prepositions of Movement más comunes, con frases de ejemplo para cada una:
across: movimiento de un lado al otro de algo
- It took us three days to drive across the desert.
- The dog ran across the road and nearly got hit by a car.
around: movimiento pasando algo en una ruta curva, no atravesándolo
- A big dog was sleeping on the floor so she had to walk around it.
- They walked around the town for an hour.
away from: indicando el punto donde comienza un movimiento
- The mouse ran away from the cat and escaped.
down: movimiento de un punto más alto a un punto más bajo de algo
- They ran down the hill to the stream below.
- He climbed down the ladder to the bottom of the well.
from: indicando el punto donde comienza un movimiento
- We flew from Bangkok to London.
- The police took my driving license from me.
into: movimiento a un espacio cerrado; movimiento que resulta en contacto físico
- He got into the car and closed the door.
- The car crashed into the wall.
off: movimiento lejos (y a menudo hacia abajo) de algo
- Please take your papers off my desk.
- The wineglass fell off the table and shattered on the floor.
on to, onto: movimiento hacia la superficie superior de algo
- They went up onto the stage.
- Move the kettle onto the counter.
out of: indicando el espacio cerrado donde comienza un movimiento
- Take your hands out of your pockets and help me!
- He went out of the room to smoke a cigarette.
over: movimiento por encima y por encima de la superficie superior o superior de algo
- We are flying over the mountains.
- The cat jumped over the wall.
past: movimiento de un lado al otro de algo
- We could see children in the playground as we drove past the school.
- We gave the marathoners water as they ran past us.
to: movimiento en la dirección de algo
- Could you give this to Kob please?
- Does this train go to London?
through | thru: movimiento en un lado y fuera del otro lado de algo
- The train goes through a tunnel under the hill.
- Hey! You just went thru a red light!
towards | toward: movimiento en la dirección de algo
- The night sky got brighter as they drove toward the city.
- At last she could recognize the person coming towards her.
under: movimiento directamente debajo de algo
- The mouse ran under the chair.
- Submarines can travel under water.
up: movimiento de un punto más bajo a un punto más alto de algo
- Jack and Jill ran up the hill.
- The boat takes two hours going up the river and one hour coming down.
Example sentences with Prepositions of Movement
- James Bond came into the room and took his gun out of his pocket.
- He walked around the table and moved toward the window.
- They saw someone running away from the school, past a car and towards the road.
- They went up on to the roof.
- He jumped off the platform and ran over the rails just before the train arrived.
- The prisoners squeezed through the window, ran across the grass and escaped under the fence.
- Jack and Jill walked up the hill. Pretty soon they were tumbling down the hill.
- Did you walk here from home?
En la siguiente lección aprenderemos Would Rather.
