preposition

How To Use preposition In A Sentence

• But it's a prepositional phrase used adverbially, modifying ‘said’.
• The reason is that some of these disyllabic prepositions are used as adverbs, and, when separated from their nouns, give one the impression that they are used as adverbs. How to Write Clearly Rules and Exercises on English Composition
• I can still remember that a few decades on, just as I can recall all the Latin prepositions that take the ablative case, courtesy of a rhyme.
• Like participles, adjectives and also some idiomatic preposition phrases, when used as adjuncts, need an understood subject (or, it might be better to say, a target of predication) to be filled in if they are to be understood.
• As for the "vav" construction, those are attached to certain verbs rather than nouns, and they are not used to indicate the preposition "from". Terry Krepel: Life Imitates The Daily Show: WorldNetDaily Wants You To Think Obama Is the Antichrist
• A switch within the prepositional phrase should be ruled out because English has prepositions and Panjabi postpositions.
• An attributive clause is a clause that modifies a noun an adjective or prepositional phrase does.
• You can use "preyed on", although it has the potential to end a sentence with a preposition, so I prefer "depredated" as an alternate to "predated" meaning eaten. This just in: authors prey on careless copy editor!
• In discussing this topic on the bus from Nicosia to Kyrenia en route to the conference dinner, Nick Jaworski pointed out, that if transfer were the explanation, why is it that his Turkish students willfully produce errors like * I went Antalya, when the analogous verb + prepositional phrase exists in Turkish (even if the preposition is attached as a suffix)? May « 2010 « An A-Z of ELT
• I know about than the preposition vs. than the introducer of elliptical clauses, but this example took me (intuitively, not analytically) aback.