prepositional

IPA: pripʌzˈɪʃʌnʌɫ

Examples of "prepositional" in Sentences

A 133 page dissent over a 2 word prepositional phrase is silly.
The last group falls into what I call prepositional trouble, as in That one threw me over the deep end.
When they correct a prepositional usage, or give me a more ‘natural’ way of saying something, it usually sticks.
Dictionary. com says that “whom” is the object form of “who” which, if I remember correctly, means in prepositional phrases (after the words to, for, by, etc.).
The case governed by a. prepoakkm, nay with prot pfitety, ht called the prepositional case, in distinction from that which la the ebjeet of a veH or participle.
In Castellano, there is no “to” form for infinitives: no puedo hacer la tarea (I can’t do the homework) doesn’t include any kind of prepositional “prefix” (as it were) for the infinitive hacer.
That kind of prepositional doubling is common enough in speech when people start to use one construction and switch into another, especially when the construction involved as here is a usage shibboleth.
Hi Vicki – first of all I would distinguish between the ‘long passive’ (i.e. the construction where the agent is identified in a prepositional phrase: “My aunt was abducted by aliens”) and the ‘short passive’, where no agent is mentioned “Caesar was assassinated”.