6.74 prepositions used

The following are used to indicate destinations and targets:

• aboard, all over, along, alongside, around, at, away from, beside, down, from, inside, into, near, off, onto, out of, round, to, toward, towards, up

Note that 'onto' is sometimes written as two words:

• The bird hopped up on to a higher branch.

In American English and some varieties of British English, 'out' is used as a preposition without 'of' to indicate direction:

• Sewing baskets, pots, calabashes, stools, and clothes would be hurled out the door.

The prepositional phrases 'to the left' and 'to the right' are also used to indicate direction.

• The second train hits the rear of the last coach, and is thrown to the left.