Preposition is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PREPOSITION in dictionary:

RESIDUAL:
• preposition.
NOUN:
• a function word that typically combines with a noun phrase to form a phrase which usually expresses a modification or predication
• A word employed to connect a 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; -- so called because usually placed before the word with which it is phrased; as, a bridge of iron; he comes from town; it is good for food; he escaped by running.
• A proposition; an exposition; a discourse.
• a function word that combines with a noun or pronoun or noun phrase to form a prepositional phrase that can have an adverbial or adjectival relation to some other word
• (linguistics) the placing of one linguistic element before another (as placing a modifier before the word it modifies in a sentence or placing an affix before the base to which it is attached)

Words related to PREPOSITION

prepositions16

Words that contain PREPOSITION

prepositions16 prepositional17 prepositionally22

How to use PREPOSITION in a sentence

• The latter phraseology, being definite and formal, is now seldom used, except the terms be separated by a verb or a preposition.
• The objective case is that form or state of a noun or pronoun, which usually denotes the object of a verb, participle, or preposition.
• The objective case is that form or state of a noun or pronoun which usually denotes the object of a verb, participle, or preposition.
• In practice it often happens, that the preposition and its object cannot be placed immediately after the word on which they depend, and which they would naturally follow.
• What is the object of a verb, participle, or preposition? 23.
• What is a PREPOSITION, and what is the example given? 2.
• A Noun or a Pronoun made the object of a preposition, is governed by it in the objective case.
• The Infinitive Mood is governed in general by the preposition TO, which commonly connects it to a finite verb.
• We commonly insert a preposition to govern one or the other of the terms.
• It neither explains the connecting nature of the preposition, nor applies to all objectives, nor embraces all the terms which a preposition may govern.
• Here too the preposition might as well have been inserted.
• Can a preposition, in English, govern any other case than the objective? 11.
• Is the objective, when it occurs before the infinitive in English, usually governed by some verb, participle, or preposition? 9.
• What preposition is often put between nouns that signify the same thing? 28.
• Can a participle which is governed by a preposition, have a case after it which is governed by neither? 91.
• Can a preposition ever govern any thing else than a noun or a pronoun? 98.
• Is every thing that a preposition governs, necessarily supposed to have cases, and to be in the objective? 99.
• Is the infinitive ever governed by a preposition in French, Spanish, or Italian? 82.
• What does Richard Johnson infer from the fact that the Latin infinitive is sometimes governed by a preposition? 85.
• How can the terms of relation which pertain to the preposition be ascertained? 3.
• Between what parts of speech, as terms of the relation, can a preposition be used? 5.
• What false doctrine have Lowth, Murray, and others, about the separating of the preposition from its noun? 16.
• Hence, in their ignorance, thousands of vulgar readers, and among them the authors of sundry grammars, have constantly mistaken this preposition for an article.
• Quelle expression y a-t-il de venir une preposition? 46.
• The preposition follows the noun, and the verb ends the sentence.
• Each form of the infinitive is found as the subject of a verb, as its object, as an attribute complement, and as the object of a preposition.
• Must we not then hold to the preposition? No, we can make a noun of it.
• The use of the correct preposition according to the verb it follows is best learnt by practice.
• This relation is generally indicated in English by the preposition of.

Similar words containing POSI without suffix tion and without prefix pre

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