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Above indicates that something is at a higher level than something.

• The flags waved above our heads.
Over indicates covering or vertically higher than something.

• The fan was directly over my head.
Below indicates that something is lower than the other thing.
• Please do not write below this line.

Under indicates something is vertically below and suggests an idea of contact.
• Grandma keeps the keys of her safe under her pillow.

By/Beside/Next to indicates by the side of something.
• We stayed in a beautiful cottage by the river.
• There is a hospital beside the temple.

• Hema is standing next to Manish.
Between is used with two people, places, or objects.
• Our house is between the supermarket and the bank.

Among indicates more than two people, places, or objects.
• The kitten hid among the hawthorn bushes.

Behind indicates at the back (of).
• There is a school behind the bank.

In front of indicates further forward than someone or something else.
• There is a sacred banyan tree in front of the temple gate.
Across indicates the opposite side of something.

• The library is just across the road.

PREPOSITIONS OF
PREPOSITIONS OF DIRECTION AND MOVEMENT DIRECTION AND MOVEMENT
Prepositions of direction and movement give us information about the direction or movement
of a noun or a pronoun. Some prepositions of direction and movement are to, towards, into,
at, out of, off, from, up, down, over, through, around, along, against, across, and off.

For example:

To indicates the sense of direction.
• Manisha and Priya went to the party last night.
Towards indicates movement in a particular direction.

• Kavya is heading towards the main street.
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