🔴Preposition English Grammar for All SSC Exams | Class 27 | Daftar Series For SSC CGL 2026 | Jai Sir

Summary

Jai Sir presents an exam-focused introduction to prepositions for competitive exams such as SSC CGL, CHSL, CPO, MTS, and Stenographer. He explains that prepositions appear in several question types, including grammar-error questions, sentence improvement, fillers, and cloze tests. He claims that more than 400 questions involving prepositions appeared in 2025, which he gives as a reason to prioritize the topic.

He divides the material into two broad areas:

• Competitive-exam patterns (about 60%): verbs that take no preposition, words that can take different prepositions, and words that take fixed prepositions.
• Academic or general preposition use (about 40%): familiar location and position words such as under, over, between, at, and behind. He says this area will be covered in a later class.

What a Preposition Does

Sir explains that a preposition usually comes before a noun or pronoun and shows its relationship to another part of the sentence. It may relate to a noun, pronoun, verb, or adjective.

Examples from the lesson include:

• The book is on the table. — On connects book and table.
• The cat is under the table. — Under expresses the cat’s position relative to the table.
• This gift is for you. — For connects the gift with you.
• She is angry with the manager. — With links the anger to the person.
• He jumped into the river. — Into relates to the action jumped.
• He lives in Kanpur. — In relates the verb lives to the place.
• Exercise is beneficial for health. — For connects an adjective with its complement.
• She is fond of music. — Of connects an adjective with its complement.

The object of a preposition is generally a noun or pronoun that follows it. Sir emphasizes that prepositions connect different kinds of words, so students should focus on each word’s role and relationship in the sentence rather than translate word for word.

Identifying Direct Objects and Avoiding Unnecessary Prepositions

A central method in the lesson is to check whether a verb already has a direct object:

1. Identify the verb.
2. Ask “what?” or “whom?” after it.
3. If a direct object immediately follows the verb, the verb is being used transitively. In the examples discussed, an extra preposition before that object is unnecessary.
4. If there is no direct object, the sentence may use a preposition followed by its object. The correct preposition still depends on the verb’s usage.

Examples used to illustrate this approach include:

• He bought a car. — A car answers “What did he buy?”
• She is demanding more money. — More money is the direct object; avoid demanding for more money.
• He married a teacher. — A teacher is the object; do not add with or to in this active construction.
• You should not blame your friend. — Your friend is the object; do not say blame on your friend.
• She qualified the test and He discussed the matter. — The lesson treats the test and the matter as direct objects, so it rejects qualified in the test and discussed about the matter in these examples.
• Amit approaches his mentor. — His mentor is the object, so to is not used after approaches.

Sir cautions against relying on translation or memorizing isolated phrases without understanding sentence structure. He also notes that a word’s grammatical role can change its pattern. For example, he contrasts stress as a noun in put stress on an issue with stress as a verb in Arjun did not stress the issue.

Exam Patterns and Examples

The lesson focuses mainly on verbs that take no preposition before a direct object. Sir lists commonly tested verbs, including attack, demand, ask, tell, inform, advise, request, face, want, blame, emphasize, stress, answer, approach, qualify, explain, describe, discuss, comprise, marry, and resemble. The auto-generated list is unclear in places, but the main point is to learn verb patterns and check whether the verb already takes an object.

Other distinctions and examples covered include:

• Return: Return already means to come back, so return back is redundant. The lesson recommends return home; home is treated as an adverb, so it does not take to.
• Despite / in spite of: Despite already carries the sense of in spite of, so do not add of after despite. Use in spite of when using that phrase.
• Comprise / consist: The lesson contrasts comprise with consist of. It gives The book consists of 10 chapters as the pattern with of, while advising against adding of after active comprise.
• Cope: Use cope with the pressure, not cope up with the pressure.
• Enter: Use enter the building without into when describing physically going inside. Sir distinguishes this from enter into an agreement and similar expressions involving participation or involvement.
• Meet: Use meet someone when referring to meeting a person. Sir also discusses meet with in connection with an unplanned encounter or an unpleasant event, as in meet with an accident.
• Marry: Use marry someone in the active construction; be married to someone describes a state or relationship.
• Die: The lesson presents different prepositions according to meaning:
  • Die of a disease or medical cause, such as die of cancer or die of a heart attack.
  • Die from an injury or external cause.
  • Die in a war or event.
  • Die for a country, cause, or belief.
• Congratulate: Use congratulate someone to refer to the person, and congratulate someone on an achievement or success.
• Angry: Use angry with a person, but angry at a situation, behavior, or service.

Sir applies these patterns to examples from several exam formats, including error detection, fillers, and sentence-improvement questions. He concludes that the same preposition rules recur across question types and says the following lesson will focus on academic uses of prepositions.

Speakers and Sources Featured

• Jai Sir — the instructor and primary speaker.
• Students/viewers — represented through comments and brief responses during the live class; no individual student is clearly identifiable as a featured speaker.
• Sohail — mentioned by Jai Sir in connection with checking a buffering issue, but not clearly featured as a speaker.