Preposition in English: a challenge to the Brazilian learner

Autores

  • Rosa Maria Neves da Silva Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Resumo

To understand the use of prepositions in Portuguese as compared to their use in English, the role they acquired in the modern version of these languages and then the difficulties the Brazilian student has in learning them, one ought to know the origins of prepositions in Portuguese -a romance language directly derived from Latin- the source of the English prepositions, and how they have changed in meaning.

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Publicado

1983-12-31