Certain words are regularly followed by particular prepositions, and it is wrong to use any others after them. It is words that link a noun phrase, a noun or a pronoun to another part of a sentence. There are no clear-cut rules or methods for choosing a preposition.
English learners can find prepositions complicated. Prepositions are association words, they give indications and direction of how the rest of the sentence fits together. There are several important rules when using prepositions in the context of a sentence, e.g. rules of how prepositions can be used, which, when and where prepositions have to go in a sentence.
Read more at http://grammar.yourdictionary.com/parts-of-speech/prepositions/rules-for-prepositions.html#JtPjgE3RdAvCl4ag.99
Some examples
OF
- accuse a person of lying
- accused of a crime
- avail oneself of a charge
- beware of hypocrites
- complain of a headache
- dispose of something
AGAINST
- warn a person against a danger
- kick against what is wrong
- to make a claim against someone
- work against time
AT
- aim at a target
- annoyed at an action
- look at someone
- laugh at a joke
- arrival at the station
- wait at table
- to jeer at a person
FOR
- to account for an action
- beg for help
- thirst for knowledge
- wait for someone
- eager for
- to hope for reward
- liable for payment
- long for rest
FROM
- borrow from
- escape from a house
- conclude from what is written
- differ from someone
- hide a secret from someone
- prevent someone from doing wrong
- shelter from the rain
TO
- attend to your work
- apologize to your mother
- call/shout to someone
- trust to a person's honour
- loyal to one's school
- be related to someone
- reply to a vote
- offer a post to a person
English Grammar: Prepositions
WITH
- agree with someone
- meet with
- deal with a shopkeeper
- wet with dew
- fall in with a plan
- deal with a matter
- disgusted with an action
- stay with your brother
- annoyed with my friend
ON
- dwell on a subject
- live on vegetables
- stand on one's dignity
- depend on someone's help
- to take revenge on someone
- they debated on socialism
- Ghandi lived on goat's milk
- intend on what one is doing
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Into (not in) must be used when movement or change is implied.
IN, INTO
- change into dry clothes
- come into fashion
- delight in doing a kind action
- join in the fun
- fail in trying to do
- persist in walking on the grass
- to step into someone's shoes
- fly into a temper
- turn into direct speech
