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Preposition Give Direction Actions Adverbs Add Information Happening

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Prepositions give direction to actions. They are not adverbs, though they do add information to what is happening in the sentence:

I sat on the chair.
Bob saw me at school.
The car is driving over the bridge.
Susan goes to work in the city.
John rode on the train to Chicago in December.

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