What is the difference between particle and preposition

Each or every? East or eastern ; north or northern? Economic or economical? Efficient or effective? Elder , eldest or older , oldest? End or finish? Especially or specially? Except or except for? Expect , hope or wait? Experience or experiment? Fall or fall down? Far or a long way? Farther , farthest or further , furthest? Fast , quick or quickly? Fell or felt? Female or feminine ; male or masculine?

Finally , at last , lastly or in the end? First , firstly or at first? Fit or suit? Following or the following? For or since? Forget or leave? Full or filled? Fun or funny? Get or go? Grateful or thankful? Hear or listen to? High or tall?

Historic or historical? House or home? How is …? If or when? If or whether? Ill or sick? Imply or infer? In the way or on the way? Late or lately? Lay or lie? Lend or borrow?

Less or fewer? Look at , see or watch? Low or short? Man , mankind or people? Maybe or may be? Maybe or perhaps?

Nearest or next? Never or not … ever? Nice or sympathetic? No doubt or without doubt? No or not? Nowadays , these days or today? Open or opened? Opportunity or possibility? Opposite or in front of? Other , others , the other or another? Out or out of? Permit or permission? Person , persons or people? Pick or pick up? Play or game? Politics , political , politician or policy? Listen to these two sentences. Aardvark slept on the couch.

Finish the sentence! Sit down! Think about this sentence: Tom Petty is running down the street. Now consider this sentence: Tom Petty is running down a dream. That example was pretty straightforward. They peaked years later, in the s, with 44 examples. A particle combined with a verb produces a new meaning different from the verb's meaning by itself. Prepositions do not change the meanings of their proceeding verbs and are independent of them.

Preposition : Max ran up the hill. Some particles are able to move in ways that prepositions cannot. They can separate from the verb and move around the object. Particles cannot move in ways that prepositions can. Particles cannot be moved as a phrase to the front of a sentence or the head of relative clause.