adjectival, adverb, adversative conjunction, conjunction, coordinating conjunction, copulative conjunction, disjunctive, exclamatory noun, form word, gerundive, part of speech, particle, perfect participle, subordinating conjunction
Definitionn. a function word that combines with a noun or pronoun or noun phrase to form a prepositional phrase that can have an adverbial or adjectival relation to some other word
Last update: January 12, 2016
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Preposition is an important parts of speech. [adjective]
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Were there any prepositions used in the preceding sentence? [Please select]
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De Rossi suggests the roots _cata_, a Græco-Latin preposition of the decadence, signifying "near," and _cumba_, a resting-place. [Please select]
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Lovel, ought to be, more welcome but"-- Oldbuck's anathema against the preposition but was internally echoed by Lovel." [Please select]
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The preposition stands before A noun, as _in_ or _through_ a door. [Please select]
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P588 - The preposition "to" is missing from the following phrase: "she drew the ivory from her gown and gave it me." [Please select]
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The exact preposition expressing this relation I do not happen to know. [Please select]
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'Very likely,' I argued, 'but the fact is not of so much importance as the preposition.' [Please select]
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There is nothing dubious about this sense of the preposition "in." [Please select]
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FOOTNOTES: [5] _For_, at the beginning of a sentence, sometimes causes temporary doubt, while the reader is finding out whether it is used as a conjunction or preposition. [Please select]
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Those terms, then, are called relative, the nature of which is explained by reference to something else, the preposition 'of' or some other preposition being used to indicate the relation. [Please select]
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