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Meanings of preposition in English

Russian
предлог
Portuguese
preposição
Spanish
preposicion
Catalan
preposició

Word or phrase able to connect a following noun or noun phrase (and often other parts of the speech) as a complement to some other part of the sentence, expressing a relation between them.

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      Usage of preposition in English
      1
      The exact preposition expressing the relation I do not happen to know.
      Adela Cathcart, Volume 1
      2
      The exact preposition expressing this relation I do not happen to know.
      The Light Princess
      3
      Can you tell me if 'amphibious' is an adverb or a preposition?
      Elbow-Room: A Novel Without a Plot
      4
      Linguists tell us that English has acquired a new preposition.Because internet.
      The Irish Times
      5
      The season's most noticeable vogue word, however, is an innocent-sounding preposition.
      The new yorker
      6
      She has held always the place of a preposition in relation to man.
      The Man-Made World; Or, Our Androcentric Culture
      7
      An intransitive verb is sometimes made transitive by the aid of a preposition.
      Higher Lessons in English: A work on English grammar and composi...
      8
      How useful was scrawling a preposition on a slanted line, anyway?
      Wired
      9
      My positive is a preposition, and my comparative is to esteem.
      St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, September 1878...
      10
      The employment of the preposition makes the expression more emphatic.
      History of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan / A Gramm...
      11
      Obviously, Sir, we'd have to preposition our forces in Silesia.
      War Of Honor
      12
      Not once, but four-no ,fivetimes!-eachtime omitting the preposition.
      Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan: First Series
      13
      There is nothing dubious about this sense of the preposition "in."
      An Introduction to Philosophy
      14
      There I go ending a sentence with a preposition.
      The Irish Times
      15
      So first, some examples of like as a preposition.
      The new yorker
      16
      How many decades the omission of this preposition must have added to Miss Iselin's life!
      The new yorker
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      Portuguese
      preposição
      Preposition through the time
      Preposition across language varieties
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