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Meanings of preposition in English
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
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The exact preposition expressing the relation I do not happen to know.
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The exact preposition expressing this relation I do not happen to know.
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Can you tell me if 'amphibious' is an adverb or a preposition?
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Linguists tell us that English has acquired a new preposition.Because internet.
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The season's most noticeable vogue word, however, is an innocent-sounding preposition.
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She has held always the place of a preposition in relation to man.
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An intransitive verb is sometimes made transitive by the aid of a preposition.
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How useful was scrawling a preposition on a slanted line, anyway?
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My positive is a preposition, and my comparative is to esteem.
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The employment of the preposition makes the expression more emphatic.
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Obviously, Sir, we'd have to preposition our forces in Silesia.
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Not once, but four-no ,fivetimes!-eachtime omitting the preposition.
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There is nothing dubious about this sense of the preposition "in."
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There I go ending a sentence with a preposition.
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So first, some examples of like as a preposition.
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How many decades the omission of this preposition must have added to Miss Iselin's life!
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Translations for preposition
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Preposition through the time
Preposition across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common