“How many English students of the French language have been experiencing difficulties in expressing the accurate prepositions to refer to the names of cities, regions and countries? What prepositions are to be used to express when they are “in” or going “to” these locations? Prepositions link nouns, pronouns and phrases to other words in a sentence and usually indicate the temporal, spatial or logical relationship of its object to the rest of the sentence...”

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FRENCH & ENGLISH PREPOSITIONS

This study was part of a research project for Macquarie University (Contrastive language studies, Master of Translation and Interpretation).

A contrastive study of the use of prepositions in English and French.