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What is a preposition?

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A preposition is a word which shows the relation of one word to another. For example, “….the key is IN the car….” or “….the book is ON the table….”

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Name 4 prepositions

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  1. In - فِي
  2. On - عَلَىٰ
  3. From - مِنْ
  4. To - إِلَىٰ
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Preposition rule rule 1

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A preposition (حَرْفُ الْجَرِّ- called /harf ul ĵarr/ in Arabic) is a single letter or a word which connects two nouns, or a verb and a noun to form a sentence. It generally is showing the position of one word to another. It always precedes a word and never follows the word.

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Preposition rule rule 2

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A preposition always comes before a noun and it does not come before a verb.

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Preposition rule rule 3

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The noun following a preposition is changed from nominative case to genitive case. This means that the last letter of the word will be changed from a /đammah/ or /đammatain/ to a /kasrah/ or /kasratain/.

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Preposition rule rule 4

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The noun followed by a preposition is called /Maĵrūr/ مَجْرُورٌ which means the preposition has caused a change in its case (from nominative to genitive case) as mentioned in the previous rule.

The preposition has causes the last letter of تُ to change to تِ .

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Preposition rule rule

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When a proposition precedes an indefinite noun (e.g. “a house”), the noun is affected in the same way. As we learnt earlier, a noun which is indefinite takes two /đammahs/ (đammatain) and is also in the nominative case. The two /đammahs/ change to two /kasrahs/ (kasratain) when a preposition comes before the noun .