IELTS HOPECO: Prepositions for Academic Writing Task 1

✦ Prepositions of DIRECTION
 

TO	The population level in this city rose to a peak of 6 million in 1972.

✦ Prepositions of TIME
 

ON	on Monday
AT	at noon at night at midnight at 6 o’clock / at 6p.m.
IN	in October in 2007 in spring

✦ Prepositions for PERIODS OF TIME
 

SINCE	Sales had risen since 2003.
FOR	Exports fell for three consecutive years.
FROM … TO	from 2003 to 2009
FROM … UNTIL	from 1998 until 2007
DURING	during the first half of this decade
WITH IN	Sales had risen to become the highest within the last 10 years.

✦ Prepositions of SPATIAL RELATIONSHIPS
 

ABOVE	Sales in Brazil were always above those of the other countries.
BELOW	Sales in Argentina were always below all other countries from 1996 onwards.

✦ Prepositions of POSITION
 

AT	remained at peaked at troughed at
IN	in Germany in Asia in all
OVER	Sales were just over $65,000.
UNDER	Sales fell by a little under $27,000.

✦ Prepositions of TRANSPORT
 

ON	on foot
BY	by car by ship by train by bus by plane by bicycle

✦ Prepositions of AMOUNT
 

BY	Sales fell by £37,000. Pollution levels rose by 62,500m3
OF	Japan experienced a decrease of £5 million in exports.
TO/FROM	Sales increased to US$35,000 from US$18,000.
FROM/TO	Exports fell from £6.3 million to £2.7 million.

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