Prepositions Practice

Prepositions are the small words that cause outsized trouble. They're short, common, and impossible to skip, and they almost never line up neatly with the ones you already know.

Prepositions are the little linking words that place things in relation to each other, in time, in space, or in logic: at noon, on the table, to the store, for you. Every language has them, but they don't match up across languages. Where English uses one, another might use three, or none, and the choice often follows habit rather than any rule you can reason out.

That mismatch is the whole difficulty. The instinct is to translate the preposition you'd use in English and hope, but that's exactly what goes wrong, because a preposition's job is decided by the specific verb or phrase it's glued to, not by a clean word-for-word swap. This is a classic case of language transfer, where your first language quietly hands you the wrong answer with total confidence. The fix isn't a chart. It's meeting each preposition in the phrases where it actually lives, enough times that the right one starts to feel right.

Atlas Runa practices prepositions in context instead of in isolation. You meet them inside real sentences, save the phrasings that trip you up, and drill them where the correct choice depends on the words around it, the way it does in the wild. Corrections explain the pattern in plain language rather than just flagging the miss, and Runa, the coach that notices which prepositions you keep getting wrong, keeps aiming practice at them.

Choose your language below to start drilling prepositions in context.