Where there is movement, there's a preposition, and a preposition is used in the same way we use preposition of place (where things are)
Her bedroom is above the living-room.
She lives just across the road.
They sat around / round the fire.
Turn left just before the church.
There is a garden behind our house.
Below the picture there was a clock.
We had a picnic beneath an enormous oak tree.
Mary sat beside John in the cinema.
She likes to sit by the river and read a book.
I keep my keys in my pocket.
There are people on the beach.
I found my mobile phone under the sofa.
Spanish and French tend to use a verb that describes the direction and then the verb tells of how it is done. So there will be a verb for go down (bajar, descendre) then how it's done 'walk', 'run' etc.
English verbs of movement say how it is done first 'walk', 'run' etc. and then show the direction with a preposition.
Walk down/up/along the street.
He ran across the street.
The dog ran after the cat.
Go / run / walk / swim etc. along this street until you get to the crossroads and then turn right.
I walked among the all the people.
They travelled all around / round the country.
The little girl walked between her mother and father.
He ran down the stairs.
She got into her car and drove away.
The cat fell off the chair.
She got onto / on the motorbike and drove away.
The eagle flew over the mountains.
The train went through the tunnel.
She ran under the bridge.
My cat climbed up the tree.
Jasmine looked round again, and there it was. Could she never get away from this terrible nightmare. The tiger was actually looking towards her through the long grass, waiting for Jasmine to move on, so it could run after her. The chase. The hunt. The kill.
Jasmine turned back, put her head down, and ran towards the castle – still too far away to be of any comfort to her.
Her foot hit against a stone. Pain! She fell over flat on her face. Panic. She got up again. The soft sound of the tiger’s paws on the ground were closer.
Ahead, there was a dead tree, which must have fallen over years ago. Its trunk was hollow, which Jasmine could crawl into on her hands and knees. She jumped forwards and was inside in a moment. Surely, the tiger was too large to crawl in after her.
Jasmine lay down on her stomach, breathing in and out with great difficulty. She couldn’t go on.
The light from the opening of the tree trunk behind Jasmine was shut off, suddenly. There was a noise behind her. The noise of the breath of the tiger. Then an angry growl. It couldn’t squeeze itself inside. Jasmine then heard through the darkness, the sound of the tiger pulling its head and shoulders out of the opening, and the light came back.
Would it go away now?
A wait of a few minutes. The tiger was moving about outside still.
Suddenly, the tree began to roll over, so that very soon Jasmine was upside down. The tiger was pushing the tree along, rolling it over and over. The tree must have been on a slope, because soon it was turning over, faster and faster with Jasmine inside. The tree was tossed up and down as it sped across the rocky ground.
Then the bumping stopped, but the sensation of movement was still there. The tree with Jasmine in it was falling down, down, down through the air. It had gone over the cliff.
A moment later, the trunk crashed down hard into water with a huge splash. Icy cold water rushed into the tree trunk. Jasmine quickly pushed herself backwards with her arms until finally she was out and free from the tree. Her feet touched down on the bottom of the lake, and Jasmine managed to get out and onto the bank.
She looked up. There, some fifty metres up at the top of the cliff, Jasmine could clearly see the tiger’s head looking angrily down at her. But there was obviously no way it could get down. The cliff was a vertical drop, and was the same all along the beach.
Jasmine began to walk, exhausted as she was, along the stony beach towards the castle she could see up ahead of her – now, thankfully a little closer.
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