English Trivia

Point on Preposition:

As the name implies, prepositions are words positioned just before the other words. It can be tricky to use them interchangeably between two different languages.

To ilustrate, the followings are examples from Indonesian, and then their English counterparts.

In Indonesian, for prepositions of place of 'di', 'ke', 'dari', we only need to add a noun after them, and voilla, it's done.

Yet in English, it is not that simple, there is a difference between 'at' the gas station, and 'in' the gas station (which both translate to 'di' SPBU in Indonesian, either you are inside or outside that very gas station).

Hence, it is worth nothing that English has more variations in term of prepositions, perhaps due to its nature of specifity. Therefore, try to get use to them and try find their equivalents in your respective mother tongue! Good luck!

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