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06．Contrastive study between English and Chinese Prepositions 06．英汉介词的prepositional phrases, of which the most frequently used ones are “at, by, for, from, in, of, on, to, with”. It is said that the use of these 9 words accounts for 92% of all prepositions; the preposition “of” has 63 usages in the Oxford English Dictionary单介词“of”, and about 300 prepositions are used in every 100 successive sentences. English prepositions far outnumber its Chinese counterparts. ?I. Differences between English and Chinese prepositions ??1．Some Chinese prepositions functions as both verb and prepositions. ?? No. Example Word class (1) 他在家。 Verb 他在家学习。 Preposition (2) 我把门。 Verb 我把门关上了。 Preposition (3) 我为谁? 为大家。 Verb 为人作嫁。 Preposition (4) 我们应该比贡献。 Verb 他比以前胖了。 Preposition (5) 兵对兵，将对将。 Verb 他对数学没有兴趣。 Preposition (6) He gets up early every day except Sunday． Preposition When I say that the boys are lazy，I except you． Verb Note: Very few prepositions in English function as both verb and preposition. ??? 2．English preposition can function as predicate(表语), but Chinese prepositions cannot. (1) They are from the same country． (2) I thought that to be of great importance． (3)??The houses are of stone． (4)??My efforts were of little avail． 3．English prepositions can be used together with nouns, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, phrases, and clauses, while Chinese prepositions can only co-occur with noun, pronoun and noun phrase. No. Example Word class (1) This is a birthday gift for my mother． Noun (2) His name is fairly well-known to us． Pronoun (3) She went to Tokyo during the summer vacation． Special noun (4) It is our great pleasure to greet a friend from afar． Adverb (5) It is far from perfect/ satisfactory． Adjective (6) (a) The student always pays attention to whatever the teacher is saying．(句子) (b) We laughed at what he said. Clause (7) 我从去年开始学习德语。 Noun (8) 她对我很亲热。 Pronoun (9) 我们要对学生负责。 Nominal group 4. English prepositions are usually synonymous, whose