ERROR ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS IN TEACHING AND LEARNING OF THE PREPOSITIONS (TO) AND (FOR)

Abstract

A preposition is used in the grammatical classification of words indicating the set of things that usually come before noun phrase, (single noun or pronoun), to shape a single constituent of structure. (Crystal, 2008:383, Chalker,1992:67, Thomson and Martinet,1986:91)
Prepositions can be used in front of nouns or noun phrases,
pronouns or gerunds to state a relationship between one person,
thing, event, etc. and another: (Alexndar, 1990, P. 155)
preposition + noun: / gave the book to Charlie
preposition + pronoun: / gave it to him.
preposition + gerund: Charlie devotes his time to reading
A preposition is a minor word class that is usually used to combine fundamental words (usually nouns) to other parts of the sentence. Prepositions are closed class which is not invented by any other thing ( Chalker,1984:214) A preposition forms a closed word class, which is normally invariable ( Aarts and Aarts,1988:44).In other words, prepositions are closed-system items ( Quirk and Greenbaum,1973:19)