Preposition

Definitions

1. Any of a class of non-inflecting words and multiword terms typically employed to connect a following noun or a pronoun, in an adjectival or adverbial sense, with some other word: a particle used with a noun or pronoun (in English always in the objective case) to make a phrase limiting some other word.
   strict-sense
2. An adposition.
   broadly
3. A proposition; an exposition; a discourse.
   obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“322. The parts of speech which are neither declined nor conjugated, are called by the general name⟳ of particles. 323. They are adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections.”

“And in (121) below, we see⟳ that when a wh-NP is used as the Object of a Preposition, the whole Prepositional Phrase can undergo⟳ WH MOVEMENT: (121) (a) [To whom] can I send⟳ this letter —? (121) (b) [About what] are they quarrelling —? (121) (c) [In which book] did you read⟳ about it —?”

“I love⟳ this girl. “On which I can get⟳ my hands” — even in her darkest moment, she cannot bring⟳ herself to end⟳ a sentence with a preposition.”

“[…] he made a longe preposicion & oracion cōcernynge yͤ allegiaūce which he exortyd his lordes to owe⟳”

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