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Grammar Prepositions – Lesson Two – About Preposition

In this grammar lesson, you will learn about the About Preposition in English and how to use it in your English conversation and writing. Below, you will see About preposition examples, that include how you use this preposition in a sentence. Just follow those examples and write them down a few times to learn them very well. After finishing this lesson, you should work on its quiz.

 

Previous Grammar Preposition

In our previous grammar preposition lesson, we covered the Aboard Preposition preposition. If you just landed on this page, we suggest that you complete our previous lesson including its quizzes before continuing on this lesson.

 

Requirement Lessons

None

 

About Preposition Examples

about = almost

Follow below examples to learn how write sentences with About preposition.

 

1. He looks like he’s about four years old.

(He’s almost four.)

 

2. She’s about 12 years old.

3. When he woke up, there were about ten people waiting for his garage sale to begin.

(garage sale: a homeowner sells unneeded, personal items from his or her garage)

 

4. He’s been on the phone for about ten minutes.

5. He weighs about 240 pounds.

6. Those mountains are about five miles away.
7. He’s just about to sneeze. about to sneeze
8. It took about 20 minutes to get our pizza delivered.

9. She’s reading a very interesting book about European history.

(In this example, the word “about” refers to the content of the book.)

 

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Next Grammar Preposition

In our next grammar preposition lesson, we will cover the Above Preposition Before moving to the next lesson, we suggest that you complete this lesson including its quizzes.

 

Related Grammar Lessons

None

 

English Grammar Propositions

If you wish to see all HiCafe English grammar preposition lessons as well as quizzes related to the Aboard proposition, you can visit the English Grammar Preposition page.

 

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