PREPOSITIONS IN ENGLISH VERSUS RUSSIAN

Abstract

A preposition is a service part of speech that reflects spatial, temporal, causal
or other types of relationships between two meaningful words.
In Russian, such relations are often expressed using cases, while in English, cases are
rudimentary, and it is prepositions and word order that are most often used to build
sentences.
Prepositions in English are a service part of speech and, as a result, cannot be used
independently and changed. Prepositions are not considered members of a sentence.
Although they are traditionally considered a separate part of speech, prepositions are
often very close in meaning to adverbs and conjunctions.