Prepositions of Device

This lesson is on prepositions of device reuse prepositions of device to describe technologies machines and of course devices.

And you may also see these referred to as prepositions of instrument and the prepositions in this lesson are by with and on.

too often used by when referring to transportation methods are usually traveled to work by car build travels from one end of the country to the other by train he completed the last part by foot now it could have said he walked the last part and that would have been equally as easy to understand and equally as valid if we look at this next sample Sally finds travelling by plane to be very stressful now freed of rephrased it as Sally finds flying to be very stressful it’s not clear whether she’s the pilot or the passenger.

So by phrasing it this way we make it very clear that she is the passenger we often use with when referring to machines and other devices Paul cut the grass with a lawnmower the lock can be opened with the proper key the manager can open any door with the master key is easy to whip cream with a whisk.

we have to news on when referring to machines and other devices I wrote the letter on the computer.

Penny likes riding on her motorbike now you’re probably saying hang on a minute you said Buy is used for transportation devices and you would be right in this case though the riding implies some sort of bicycle or motorbike or a horse or something and we’ll use it on her motor bike to be clear exactly what we’re referring to we’d say she likes travelling by motorbike but she likes riding on her motorbike you can call me on my mobile phone at any time and cell is in brackets here because mobile phone is what the UK English people would say and cell phone is the US the American English version John cut the wood to size on the band so.