How To Use Preposition In A Sentence
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But it's a prepositional phrase used adverbially, modifying ‘said’.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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A switch within the prepositional phrase should be ruled out because English has prepositions and Panjabi postpositions.
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An attributive clause is a clause that modifies a noun an adjective or prepositional phrase does.
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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!
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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)?
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I know about than the preposition vs. than the introducer of elliptical clauses, but this example took me (intuitively, not analytically) aback.
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Earlier forerunners rely entirely on intransitive or quasi-transitive verbs, with the object preceded by a preposition.
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So, when we place a noun before a verb as actor or subject, we say it is in the _nominative case_; but when it follows a transitive verb or preposition, we say it has another _case_; that is, it assumes a new _position_ or _situation_ in the sentence: and this we call the _objective_ case.
English Grammar in Familiar Lectures
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The fusion of airlift, sealift, and prepositioning elements produces an effective lift capability for the operational commanders.
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The omission of prepositions is a common practice in informal English or spoken English.
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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”.
Desperately Seeking Sarah
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He asked me with whom I had discussed it. In spoken English it is much more natural to use who and put the preposition at the end of the sentence:Who should I address the letter to?
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The principal concern is the preposition ‘on’ as a signifier of contact with a surface - especially an upper surface.
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There is nothing in the rules of grammar to suggest that ending a sentence with a preposition is wrong.
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I could have done with more drilling on the basics (though outside a classroom environment I suppose again I have only myself to blame) and still feel very shaky indeed on the personal forms of prepositions (which should have been indexed or consolidated in one of the appendices) or on the questions of eclipsis and lenition (the modification of the first letter of the word, if it is b, c, d, f, g, m, p, s or t, depending on context).
May Books 13-14) two Nebula winners
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prepositional phrase
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When challenged to come up with words of another language, most people will respond with nouns and verbs rather than auxiliaries, prepositions, and the like.
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Don't you just LOVE analysts who use words like "harangued" (pretending to be erudite and sophisticated) and, in the same sentence, leave out the simple, basic preposition "of"?
MacDailyNews
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the prepositional phrase here is used adverbially
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Such words include pronouns, auxiliary verbs, conjunctions, and prepositions.
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An alternative for 4a, assuming we mean Alia Shawkat to be in apposition, is to repeat the preposition:
The serial, Harvard, or Oxford comma « Motivated Grammar
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If you wished to say that something happened in Asia, it would not suffice to use the simple ablative, because that form would have the same pronunciation as the nominative or the accusative, Asia (m), but the preposition must be prefixed, _in Asia_.
The Common People of Ancient Rome Studies of Roman Life and Literature
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The nail is an indirect object because it is related to the verb through the preposition - on.
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A good comedy movie is also one that is dripping with humour in small doses, so that even a preposition or a pronoun at a given moment seems hilarious.
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And so you've stuffed yourself as full of verbs and prepositional phrases and epiglottal stops as a grilled pepper!
Icerigger
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If this were the correct derivation, we should expect to find _sinecere_, for the _e_ would scarcely be dropped; just as we have the English word _sinecure_, which is the only compound of the preposition _sine_ I know; and is itself _not a Latin word_, but of a later coinage.
Notes and Queries, Number 208, October 22, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc
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However, some transitive verbs take a prepositional phrase instead of an indirect object.
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Find them, and give the reason.] [Footnote 2: When a noun is modified by both a genitive and an adjective, a favorite order of words is _adjective, genitive, noun_.] [Footnote 3: A modifying genitive often stands between a preposition and its object.] *****
Latin for Beginners
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Nathan said only enough to indicate that he was using language with an unaccustomed force and intelligence - but mildly annoying, as if all substantives fell away, leaving only the prepositions.
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All six warehouses of them are prepositioned in locations all throughout the south, but particularly what we call flashpoint areas, areas that might experience trouble, said Grande.
Humanitarian Organizations in Sudan Prepare for Referendum Aftermath
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I do not see many situations in which grammarians would except the ‘hanging’ preposition, but I advise all of you to use it cautiously and, above all, only in spoken or colloquial language.
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Anastrophe occurs chiefly with dissyllabic prepositions.
New Latin Grammar
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Although inrúpit means 'burst _into_,' the preposition is nevertheless required with the noun to express the place into which he burst.
Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles A First Latin Reader
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If their each influence breaks through the boundary about them, the original"preposition o"phrase will lexicalize into the"preposition o"compound words .
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Who decides whether it's acceptable to end a sentence with a preposition or to use the word "infer" as a synonym for "imply"?
Grappling Grammarians
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“The legitimacy of the prepositional ending in literary English must be uncompromisingly maintained; in respect of elegance or inelegance, every example must be judged not by any arbitrary rule, but on its own merits …”
Up from out of in under for
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In any case, prepositions omitted in second conjuncts are routine.
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Other two-syllable words such as adverbs and prepositions seem to behave like verbs and adjectives.
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This is usually called a zeugma; it's a purely structural way of using prepositions in an odd way, for effect e.g., humor.
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Looks like it managed it, too - provided we take ‘like’ to be a preposition, not an adjective taking a noun phrase complement.
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logical quantifiers, adverbs, prepositions, and conjunctions are called syncategoremes
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She lays a lot of emphasis on the usage of prepositions.
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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.
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It's obligatory to have either a direct object or a preposition phrase with ‘for’.
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According to a distribute computer automatic alarm system that consist of dorminant, preposition and terminal computer, We introduced its communication system.
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There are many thousands of high speed manoeuvrable small boats between 16 and 30 foot length already prepositioned all over USA.
Cheeseburger Gothic » WW question from Jose.
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Though I cannot admire his style, I admire the man who wrote to me, Re Tennysonyour remarks anent his In Memoriam make me sick: for though re is not a preposition of the first water, and anent has enjoyed its day, the finish crowned the work.
V. Interlude: On Jargon
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Indeed, the nominal part of this prepositional phrase is not in the nominative case.
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San Francisco; he had used the word cocksucker and riffed that "'to' is a preposition, 'come' is a verb" and that the sexual context of "come" is so common that it bears no weight, and that if someone hearing it becomes upset, they "probably can't come.
Phawker
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First, the fact that we found no systematic differences between sentences with different locative prepositions is probably because of the specific types of locative prepositions in our experiment.
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For four lines, objects of prepositions and the parenthesized nouns seem related as synonyms, metaphors, or metonymies.
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Complete the following sentences by filling the blanks with proper prepositions and adverbs.
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He asked me with whom I had discussed it. In spoken English it is much more natural to use who and put the preposition at the end of the sentence:Who should I address the letter to?
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But the preposition is more frequently placed after the verb, and separately from it, like an adverb; in which situation it does not less affect the sense of the verb, and give it a new meaning; and in all instances, whether the preposition is placed either before or after the verb, if it gives a new meaning to the verb, it may be considered as _a part of the verb_.
English Grammar in Familiar Lectures
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The questionnaire included examples of nouns, verbs, adjectives, and ‘closed-class’ words - pronouns, question words, prepositions and articles, and quantifiers.
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Furthermore, the verbs are usually transitive, though occasionally they are used intransitively with a preposition like for, of, or about introducing the object.
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This could be a preposition, a verb, or a noun which does not in fact count as the ‘possessor’.
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Instead, there is the contrast between infinitives introduced by the prepositions à and de.
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Rewrite sentences in the active voice. Recast sentences that have more than five prepositions and infinitives.
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Government is an extension of the traditional term whereby a verb governs its object, but for Chomsky prepositions may govern and subjects may be governed.
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A preposition is a fine word to end a sentence with but the “at” in “Where are you at?”
2008 August « Motivated Grammar
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Traditional grammars always tell you that adjectives are defined as words that modify nouns, and adverbs can be defined as words that modify other parts of speech - they modify verbs, adjectives, other adverbs, and prepositions.
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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:
À la carte, à la, Al
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Such adverbs are sometimes called prepositional adverbs, sometimes adverbial particles.
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Back came the speech with no word save a notation that one of the sentences ended with a preposition, and an indication where the error should be eliminated.
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The versatility of Greek prepositions makes it difficult to distinguish between the locative and instrumental uses, or even the dative of reference.
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But though prepositions and conjunctions, &c., are names well known in grammar, and the particles contained under them carefully ranked into their distinct subdivisions; yet he who would show the right use of particles, and what significancy and force they have, must take a little more pains, enter into his own thoughts, and observe nicely the several postures of his mind in discoursing.
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
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The intransitive verb may be used passively with the preposition as an adverbial adjunct, as in 'I despair of success'.
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The Greek preposition had several meanings, depending on whether it governed the accusative, genitive, or dative case.
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In particular, similar patterns exist for other cases of verbs combining with intransitive prepositions (or ‘particles’, as some people call them).
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The combination of verbs with intransitive prepositions is one of the many pseudopods of morphological quasi-regularity that extend into the phrasal domain in English.
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The Greek preposition had several meanings, depending on whether it governed the accusative, genitive, or dative case.
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When challenged to come up with words of another language, most people will respond with nouns and verbs rather than auxiliaries, prepositions, and the like.
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By dropping subjects, predicates, and/or prepositions, Sosnora often reduces sentences to fragments or even to phrases.
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The Greek preposition had several meanings, depending on whether it governed the accusative, genitive, or dative case.
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Such words include pronouns, auxiliary verbs, conjunctions, and prepositions.
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You will find many sentences beginning with conjunctions and many ending with a preposition.
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For example, it apparently tells you not to end sentences with prepositions.
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Parliamentary question time is full of wonderful examples of extended verbs, conjunctions and prepositional phrases employed to evade answering a question.
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We don't tell each other what we think about anything - except about how prepositions or participles or relative pronouns function.
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It oversees the Army's prepositioned stocks and is a component of the strategic mobility triad of airlift, sealift, and global prepositioning.
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Such adverbs are sometimes called prepositional adverbs, sometimes adverbial particles.
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This idea is expressed in Latin by the ablative without a preposition, and the construction is called the «ablative of cause»:
Latin for Beginners
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Example e) is valid as speech; its comma indicates the difference in intonation and the pause between preposition and adverb that I mentioned above, and the pronunciation difference (/u/and schwa) may also be heard.
6 posts from February 2008
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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.”
Archive 2008-05-01
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The preposition with the verb shows that the meaning of ‘binding and obligating someone’ is implied here.
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But instead of noting this as evidence against the made-up preposition-proscription, she embarrassedly apologized for it.
2010 September « Motivated Grammar
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In the third case, the shared constituent is a prepositional phrase, connected to noun phrases in both conjuncts.
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The least complex postmodifier - and by far the most common - is a prepositional phrase.
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Some one once pointed out that the preposition is a dangerous thing.
Survival At Stake, Our Individual Responsibilities
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This idea is expressed in Latin by the ablative with the preposition «cum», and the construction is called the «ablative of accompaniment»:
Latin for Beginners
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These preferences often serve to clarify, but a less deft handling leads to tercets like the following, their force buried under prepositions, pronouns and modals.
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The prepositions, in their bag, made a sound of agreement like metal chimes.
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I don't care for depredated myself, as you can usually avoid the end-of-sentence preposition with "preyed on.
This just in: authors prey on careless copy editor!
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It's quite different from English, too, in that it puts the verb at the end of the sentence and uses postpositions instead of prepositions.
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Parliamentary question time is full of wonderful examples of extended verbs, conjunctions and prepositional phrases employed to evade answering a question.
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The words ‘faux bourdon’ were often preceded by the preposition ‘à’ or ‘per’, sometimes ‘au’ even ‘aux’ or ‘in’; the expression might also be shortened to ‘per faulx’ or ‘per bardunum’.
Archive 2008-02-01
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It will be shown that a semantic fit between the sortal restrictions activated by the preposition and a depicted object results in inhibitory effects.
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Using a straight news story, circle all the direct objects in blue, the indirect objects in red, and the objects of prepositions in green.
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Moreover, many words have uses without meanings - personal names, prepositions, conjunctions, and the like are cases in point.
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The prepositional phrase used as an adverbial is usually before a verb.
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Draw dependency diagrams for the following examples; make sure you decide for every preposition whether it depends on a noun or a verb.
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Stranding prepositions (prepositions without objects) are native to all North Germanic languages and are an integral part of English.
Jerry Weissman: Language Lovers Unite II
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Because I have been using English naturally for the best part of sixty years I have stopped thinking about the construction of sentences (gerunds, subjunctives, conjunctions and prepositions, and all that).
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Besiege" takes a preposition, "by," and an object: you can't be besieged without a besieger, but you will never find out the identity of the besieger inside the barricades that protect you from whatever it is.
New York Review: The Collected Stories Of Lydia Davis
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The postposition 'long', too, is adverbial to me: "all day/night/week/month long" strikes me as an adverb of duration rather than a preposition...
On postpositions
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It's quite different from English, too, in that it puts the verb at the end of the sentence and uses postpositions instead of prepositions.
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There is plenty of evidence that even educated Americans often believe that there is something wrong with sentences ending in prepositions.
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Just to clarify what the cases mean - dative means Bellesiles is the indirect object; and the ablative, among other things, it's used with the preposition ‘with’ (I wrote the book with Bellesiles).
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According to a distribute computer automatic alarm system that consist of dorminant, preposition and terminal computer, We introduced its communication system.
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The exception to this rule is the preposition a from Latin ` ad ’, where the final d became assimilated in sound with the consonant following it, and then the cluster underwent spirant mutation.
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The nominal part of this prepositional phrase is not in the nominative case.
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It is poor style as well as exceptionable grammar to use 'prior to' as a compound preposition.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
English in the Times
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A good comedy movie is also one that is dripping with humour in small doses, so that even a preposition or a pronoun at a given moment seems hilarious.
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Find them, and give the reason.] [Footnote 2: When a noun is modified by both a genitive and an adjective, a favorite order of words is _adjective, genitive, noun_.] [Footnote 3: A modifying genitive often stands between a preposition and its object.] *****
Latin for Beginners
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In other instances, there are related prepositional and adverbial forms.
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It will be shown that a semantic fit between the sortal restrictions activated by the preposition and a depicted object results in inhibitory effects.
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This idea is expressed in Latin by the ablative without a preposition, and the construction is called the «ablative of means»:
Latin for Beginners
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I was about to finish a sentence with a preposition there, something I never do.
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According to the dictionary, abaft can be used adverbially (in the stern half of the ship) or prepositionally (nearer the stern than; aft of).
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A conspectus of his doctrines is given in the Syntax, which deals mainly with article, pronoun, verb, preposition, and adverb, successively.
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It doesn't have separate words for articles, prepositions, or pronouns, which are indicated by altered word endings.
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Also, the children almost never used prepositions, articles, conjunctions, and other ‘function’ words.
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First, the example is one in which the preferred form of the sentence ended in two prepositions, the second with an object and the first without, and he fronted both of them.
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However, some transitive verbs take a prepositional phrase instead of an indirect object.
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We seem to understand apad vellumtomes muniment, Arans Duhkha, among hoseshoes, cheriotiers and etceterogenious bargainbout-barrows, ofver and umnder, since, evenif or although, in double preposition as in triple conjunction, how the mudden research in the topaia that was Mankaylands has gone to prove from the picalava present in the maramara melma that while a successive generation has been in the deep deep deeps of Deepereras.
Finnegans Wake
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But it's important to note the placement of prepositions, how a phrase is parsed.
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Perhaps the quadruple prepositional phrases, which delay the word gentleness from being connected with murder.
Archive 2009-02-01
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I hope you don't mind my ending a sentence with a preposition.
52449_CLARA
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Thus, I believe that the preposition usually translated as "but" in this verse (which means 'instead' or 'rather'), should really have been translated with a continuative sense as "and" or "moreover" -- "You have heard it said... moreover I tell you...".
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(Most Latin dictionaries will simply give you the information “curia, – ae, fem.”, for example, and the user is expected to deduce from this that curiam is the proper form needed after the preposition per.) Throbert McGee (Quote)
The Volokh Conspiracy » PC
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This paper deals With the usage of prepositional phrase indicating continuous sense in view of semantics.
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Where the succession of possessives is unpleasant or confusing, the substitution of a prepositional phrase should be made; as, _the house of the mother of Charles's partner_, instead of, _Charles's partner's mother's house_.
Practical Grammar and Composition
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In Latin, prepositions are indeclinable (they do not have endings); the object of a Latin preposition will be in either the ablative or the accusative case.
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Similarly, in the absence of the historically manifested “whence?” and “whither?”, directional question words both, and which have both collapsed into the locative “where?”, it becomes necessary to add preposition-like semantic cues into utterances in order to re-establish the appropriate semantics.
Where are you (at)? « Motivated Grammar
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He points out that the fact that like is a preposition doesn't mean that it can't take a clausal complement.
Times, Sunday Times
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Most conjuncts are adverbs (also known as conjunctive adverbs) and prepositional phrases.
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‘De minimis’ is a construction called the ablative plural, you don't use the ending ‘us’ after the preposition ‘de’.
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There is nothing in the rules of grammar to suggest that ending a sentence with a preposition is wrong.
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Importantly, throughout all the analyses no clear effect of ‘left of’ versus ‘right of’ was observed for the present study, and therefore it seems unlikely that tapping works by hampering body-centred prepositional coding.
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It's quite different from English, too, in that it puts the verb at the end of the sentence and uses postpositions instead of prepositions.
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I didn't understand what the teacher said about prepositions, because she only skated over it.
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(They are of course categorematic in the grammatical sense, in which prepositions and adverbs are equally clearly syncategorematic.)
Logical Truth
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Note that there is no preposition expressing 'at'--the continuative pronouns include the notion 'at, in, on'.
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The gerundive is a verbal adjective and must be used instead of gerund + object, excepting in the genitive and in the ablative without a preposition.
Latin for Beginners
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Sometimes used for the objective after a verb or preposition, esp. when separated from the governing word by other words.
Between you and ?
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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.
The no-final-prepositions rule: Not even half right. « Motivated Grammar
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What is the function of the prepositional phrase?
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I'm no kind of expert on translation, but if they'd asked me, I would have been tempted to nominate some morphological category like inchoative, or some preposition or determiner.
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Of course, the difficulty here is to provide a list that is as comprehensive as it is unambiguous, which is nearly impossible given homonymous words such as 'like' (verb, adverb, preposition and conjunction).
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Indeed, the nominal part of this prepositional phrase is not in the nominative case; sub governs the ablative case.
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The preposition of inclusion in the subtitle better represents the argument than does the conjunction in the main clause.
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There seems to be nothing but confusion with regards to the intricacies of a language, or what the stuffy English major in me knows as lexical content words (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs) and function words (pronouns, conjunctions, determiners, prepositions etc.) - something that seems to fly over the heads of most self-professed raw watchers, especially those who claim they don't need subtitles anymore.
Design daily news
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Of us" is a prepositional phrase and therefore "us," though referring to many instead of one, cannot pluralize the verb form.
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