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Prepositions
Chinese	Preposition	Sentence	Chinese
	despite	She went to work despite her poor health.
	down	Let's go down into the basement.
	during	Let's go shopping during our lunch break.
	for	John cooked dinner for his wife.
	from	The man entered the store from the street.
	in	Put the dishes in the diswasher.

Preposoitions
Chinese	Preposition	Sentence	Sentence
	of	The condition of the rescued person is stable.
	off	Everyone please get off the road.
	on	Put the glass on the table.
	out	She walked out the door.
	over	He moved over to the other side of town.
	since	She's been sad ever since her dog died.

Preposoitions
Chinese	Preposition	Sentence	Sentence
	through	Let's go through these bills together.
	to	Who should I give the bill to.
	under	To avoid the rain we stood under the bridge.
	until	We'll stay here until it stops raining.
	up	Stand up, all those who would like to go.
	with	She went to the theatre with her friend.
	without	A hotdog without mustard, please.

Compound Preposoitions
Chinese	Preposition	Sentence	Sentence
	along with	I went to the store along with my friend.
	together with	Together with my friend, off to the store we went.
	because of	We could not go because of the rain.
	due to	Due to the rain we had to cancel.
	in spite of	In spite of the rain we still went.
	on account of	We canceled the trip on account of the rain.
	next to	Stand next to your friend.
	on top of	On top of the car was mounted a bike.