Clauses, adverbs phrases & noun phrases are also commonly used
Position: I work in an important factory. The factory is there. I work a long way from here.
Direction. The burglar ran past the checkpoint. The police followed him wherever he went.
Simple prepositional adverbs: adverbs which behave like prepositions but OMIT the COMPLEMENT - same functions, but not the syntactic status. A simple prepositional adverb is capable of standing alone as an adjunct, disjunct or conjunct, without the addition of a prepositional complement.
Most place prepositions correspond in form AND meaning to prepositional adverbs: above, along, anywhere, around, away, back, below, by, down, east, elsewhere, far, here, home, in, locally, near, off, opposite, out, ove, past, round, somewhere, there, through, under, up, within.
Adverbs denoting direction alone: aside, backwards, downwards, forwards, inwards, left, outwards, right, sideways, upwards