Prepositions of Place: Examples & Exercises

Prepositions of Place describe where something happens or is located. Try the following exercise:

Was this too hard? Study the article below and try the exercises at the bottom of the page.

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Prepositions of Place – Table
- Preposition of Place or Movement?
Prepositions of Place Exercises

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Prepositions of Place – Table

Preposition	Use	Examples
at	A specific point/area	at the corner, at the door
on	A surface	on the table, on the floor
in	Inside an enclosed space	in the car, in the room
under	Below something	under the bed, under the tree
between	In the middle of two things	between the houses
next to	Beside something	next to the shop
behind	at the back part, hiding	behind the fence
above	at a higher position	above the bed, above the window
in front of	close to the front part	in front of the TV

More Examples:

She is waiting at the bus stop.
The vase is on the shelf.
He’s hiding under the bed.

Preposition of Place or Movement?

Prepositions of place tell us where something or someone is. They describe a static position and answer the question “Where?” For example, “The cat is under the table,” or “The book is on the desk.”

Prepositions of movement, on the other hand, describe a change of position, they show movement from one place to another and answer the question “Where to?” For example, “The cat went into the box,” or “She climbed onto the roof.”

Some pairs are especially tricky:

in / into — “in” is static (“She is in the room”), while “into” shows motion (“She walked into the room”).
on / onto — “on” is a location (“The vase is on the table”), but “onto” means movement to a surface (“He jumped onto the table”).

So, remember: place = no movement, movement = a change of location.

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Prepositions of Place Exercises

a bedroom with wooden furniture and some objects whose position need to be described using prepositions of place

EXERCISE: Prepositions of Place – Picture

Look at the picture and write the correct preposition to fill the gaps.

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The aquarium is the dresser.

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Maybe there is a shoe hidden the bed.

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There is one shoe the bed.

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The pencil holder is the headset.

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The clock is the aquarium.

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There are probably clothes the dresser.

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The laptop is the desk lamp and the headset.

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The picture is the bed.

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The nightstand is the bed.

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The chair is of desk.

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