This study analyzed the writing skill of the business students at the undergraduate level with a special focus on the use of prepositions of place, time, and direction in the English language. The subjects of the study comprised 100 writing outputs of students. The grammar and literature outputs of students in the business college are randomly selected as subjects for analysis. The data elicitation instrument was guided cloze test in which the subjects were asked to fill the gaps using appropriate prepositions of place, time, and direction. The descriptive method is used in the analysis of the collected data. The results indicated that the students found difficulties in the use of prepositions of place, direction, and time. The findings imply that teacher facilitators should pay more attention to the teaching of the prepositions of place, time, and direction. On the other hand, while teachers work hard to facilitate learning; the students are urged to take more time in the practice and mastery of rules in the use of prepositions. The teacher facilitators should strategize giving simple and sufficient explanations on the rules and more classroom activities and outputs in the use of prepositions.
Preposition, importance of writing, cloze test
