Prepositions1 app for iPhone and iPad

Learn the mental images that native speakers use to select the right
preposition. Develop a native-like sense of how to use English
prepositions by learning from pictures instead of explanations!
Please try out of the free version.

The Criteria Approach: Prepositions Vol.1 is a unique and compelling
way for learners of English to discover the criteria that native
speakers use to select prepositions. Using your own awareness, go
through the illustrations and listen to the narration in this
application many times and deepen your understanding of English.



Any time we speak or write in any language, we must choose
the words we use to express ourselves. Even if we cannot explain
exactly why we select the words we do, each of us has criteria for how
to choose them. Native speakers of each language share a common set of
criteria that allow them to express themselves, and make themselves
understood. Of course English has its own, specific criteria, and
grasping them is essential to improving your ability to express
yourself clearly.

Prepositions are essential for expressing directions and locations in
space and time, and thus a key component of learning how to
communicate effectively in English. Prepositions also indicate whether
a space should be imagined as a point (0-dimensional), a line
(1-dimensional), a plane (2-dimensional), or a 3-dimensional object.

In this Volume 1, we will examine prepositions which indicate position
relative to a line, i.e. one dimensional space. These include on,
onto, off, over, under and along.

Prepositions are presented in three stages:

1. The basic image,
2. Extension of the basic image, and
3. Images in contrast.

First, discover the basic images that are common to each preposition
through the situations and conceptual drawings presented in the
pictures. Next. apply to these core images to more abstract
situations. And finally, find the more subtle distinctions among the
images of prepositions by comparing and contrasting similar
situations.

The Criteria Approach presents you with a large number of situations
for you to express in English, and through the experience of
visualizing these situations, you will naturally find the criteria you
need to use to select the various prepositions. Please have fun with The
Criteria Approach: Prepositions Vol. 1.