Word Finder - preposition

definition

(grammar, strict sense) Any of a class of non-inflecting words 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.

definition

A proposition; an exposition; a discourse.

The pattern is built around a number followed by a preposition.

To control your balloon, use the correct preposition from the top to go forward and the correct preposition from the bottom to stop.

The preposition pra was prefixed, and you get pramantha.

If they are preceded by a preposition they also are referred to as prepositional phrases.

Even the most fluent speakers and writers would probably confess to an occasional uncertainty as to the most appropriate preposition.

What the grammarians called " tmesis," the separation of the preposition from the verb with which it is compounded, is peculiar to Homer.

Thus, since the Hebrew eth, which marks the accusative, is also the preposition " with," Deut.

It is true that the preposition " to " O may denote authorship, as it does apparently in Isaiah xxxviii.

Mesopotamia seems to imply the view that beth is the preposition "amid," which has the same form,' but need not imply the meaning "between," that is, the idea that there were precisely two rivers.

This notion has died out in England by the dropping of the preposition; but it long lived on wherever Latin or French was used.

For instance, the well-known description (in chap. xlvii.) of the preposition " in " occurring in a theological dogma as a " momentous particle which the memory rather than the understanding must retain " is taken directly from the first Provincial Letter.

The noun preceding this preposition may be in the emphatic state or may (as is usually the case when the noun is definite) have a pleonastic suffix.

The true account of the matter is that in Homer the place of the preposition is not rigidly fixed, as it was afterwards.

If the relative is the object of a preposition, the latter is put at the end of the clause, and has a personal ending, thus y ty y b12m ynddo, literally, " the house which I-was in-it."

In English th represents both the unvoiced sound J as in thin, &c., and the voiced sound 5, which is found initially only in pronominal words like this, that, there, then, those, is commonest medially as in father, bother, smother, either, and is found also finally in words like with (the preposition), both.

A prepositional phrase has a preposition and an object.