ENGLISH PREPOSITIONS AND MARATHI POSTPOSITIONS  (Paperback, Dr. Rajani Patil)

The present book was designed to elaborate the problems encountered by the undergraduate students in the use of preposition within their writing practices. The present book made an attempt to find out the difficulties in the use of prepositions in particular, of place, time and direction while using English. The research findings of the author revealed that the students at undergraduate level encountered serious difficulties in using prepositions. The reason for the errors was lack of understanding the usage, mother-tongue interference and the inability to use an appropriate preposition to produce meaningful sentences. The errors committed by the learners were related to syntax and semantics due to the lack of knowledge and practice in L2. The incorrect choice of preposition leads to the distraction of the meaning, which is influenced by L1 in the L2 context In this manner, this book makes an attempt to undertake a comparative study of English prepositions with Marathi postpositions and tries to relate the errors of such speakers to first language interference.