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| <html><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>Some adverbs of place are also prepositions of place. The difference is that adverbs are used alone and prepositions require a noun. For example:</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We can't smoke <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">inside</span>. [adverb]</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We can't smoke inside <u>the building</u>. [preposition]</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>They looked up. [adverb]</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>They looked up <u>the road</u>. [preposition]</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;'>If you are not sure how to use them in a sentence, look at examples in a good dictionary.</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style=' |