preposition
IPA: pripʌzˈɪʃʌn
noun
- (grammar, strict sense) Any of a class of non-inflecting words typically employed to connect a following noun or a pronoun, in an adjectival or adverbial sense, with some other word: a particle used with a noun or pronoun (in English always in the objective case) to make a phrase limiting some other word.
- (grammar, broad sense) An adposition.
- (obsolete) A proposition; an exposition; a discourse.
verb
- To place in a location before some other event occurs.
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Examples of "preposition" in Sentences
- Composed of the preposition and.
- The preposition remains a preposition.
- The prepositional phrase into the VCR .
- Preposition and punctuation and indentation.
- In the above examples, the prepositional Conjunctions.
- The object of a compound preposition is in the genitive.
- In the backyard and at the cat are prepositional phrases..
- DOs are prepositional phrases, but are not classified as such.
- Some one once pointed out that the preposition is a dangerous thing.
- In other words, preposition is the superclass while adverb is the subclass.
- A preposition is a fine word to end a sentence with but the “at” in “Where are you at?”
- Important information for distinguishing whether the preposition is a verb or a preposition is the information of the children of the preposition.
- In French the preposition is followed by a feminine noun (the masculine form is au, a contraction of à + le), but as an English compound preposition it is independent of gender:
- In this case the word is a Latin preposition meaning “with” and is somewhat misused as a conjunction to convey the notion that “shooting star” might be as good a choice as “rising star”.
- Maybe this comes from my years of Latin in college or maybe it comes from a broken synapse in my frontal lobe, but ending a sentence in a preposition is just something I have decided not to do.
- One evening, I remarked that there appeared to be both a bottle of red and a bottle of white on our dinner table, and Fr. Greg responded with the observation of many Catholic apologists, that the great Catholic preposition is “and,” whereas the Protestant preposition is “or.”
- A preposition must by definition be associated with a noun, and it is the separation of the preposition from the noun that offends those who see in the very name ‘pre-position’ the need, which cannot be avoided in Latin languages (or indeed in German), to place it immediately before the noun.