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    The document discusses common mistakes made with prepositions in English and provides examples of incorrect versus correct usage. Some key points covered include: using "home" instead of "to home", using "for" to indicate duration rather than "since", including words like "that" in comparisons, using "with" to indicate a tool rather than "by", using "of" rather than "by" after verbs like "die", and using the present perfect or present perfect continuous tenses after expressions with "for" or "since".

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    The document discusses common mistakes made with prepositions in English and provides examples of incorrect versus correct usage. Some key points covered include: using "home" instead of "to home", using "for" to indicate duration rather than "since", including words like "that" in comparisons, using "with" to indicate a tool rather than "by", using "of" rather than "by" after verbs like "die", and using the present perfect or present perfect continuous tenses after expressions with "for" or "since".

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    Mistakes with prepositions

    Incorrect: He is going to home.


    Correct: He is going home.

    The preposition ‘to’ is not normally used with ‘home’.

    Incorrect: The children have been playing since two hours.


    Correct: The children have been playing for two hours.

    We use ‘for’ to indicate duration. ‘Since’ is used with the starting point of action.

    Incorrect: An ordinary man’s life is different from a minister.


    Correct: An ordinary man’s life is different from that of a minister.

    Do not omit the words ‘that’ and ‘those’ in comparisons.

    Incorrect: He hit me by a stick.


    Correct: He hit me with a stick.

    The preposition ‘by’ shows the agent – the person who performs the action. The preposition ‘with’ shows the
    tool with which the action is performed.

    Incorrect: I need a pen to write.


    Correct: I need a pen to write with.
    Incorrect: Many people died by cholera.
    Correct: Many people died of cholera.
    Incorrect: India has been independent for 1947.
    Correct: India has been independent since 1947.
    Incorrect: I am ill since three weeks.
    Correct: I have been ill for three weeks.

    In expressions with ‘for’ and ‘since’, we normally use the present perfect and present perfect continuous
    tenses.

    Incorrect: This paper is inferior than that.


    Correct: This paper is inferior to that.

    After adjectives like inferior, superior, senior and junior, we use the preposition ‘to’ instead of the preposition
    ‘than’.

    Incorrect: This is different to that.


    Correct: This is different from that. / This is different than that.

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