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You have read this rhyme many a times in your childhood. Your parents, especially your mother had coaxed you to recite this rhyme whenever a guest visited your home. So you remember it even to this day. Let me remind you a line from the above-mentioned poem/rhyme:
..up above the world so high
like a diamond in the sky....
In these two lines you will find three common prepositions. Up means something exists above our head, and above means it is higher than up. So sometimes we find in a little confused. The prepositions ON< UP and ABOVE convey the meaning that there is something which is above something. WE use ON something or somebody is sitting or standing upon another thing and it must be 'touching'.something.
1. Sit on the chair.2. Put the book on the table.3.Boats float on the river.
(You cannot sit UP or ABOVE the chair, can you? Your back must touch the chair or you will fall down. If you keep the book UP or ABOVE the table. You have to hang the book with a rope or string in that case. Similarly you cannot sail a boat UP or ABOVE the river. You could do the trick if you were a PC SORKAR Jr.)
2.UP and ABOVE often create confusion in the mind of the young learner. UP means towards something high above us. It indicates direction. The balloon is going UP into the sky. ABOVE means much higher. The sun is shining brightly ABOVE our head. ( I hope the confusion is gone.)
3. IN and INTO mean almost the same thing. INTO is used when we want to convey the meaning that something is moving inside something. A) We swim in the river. B) He lives in India but C) Girls are jumping into the river from a diving board.
ENJOY LEARNING
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