Preposition (Noun)
Meaning 1
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.
Classification
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
Examples
- The word "in" is a preposition used to describe the location of the object in the sentence.
- In English grammar, a preposition is a function word that expresses the relationship between a noun or pronoun and other words in a sentence.
- Prepositions such as "above," "below," and "across" can indicate location or direction in a sentence.
- A preposition typically comes before a noun or pronoun to form a prepositional phrase that modifies another word in the sentence.
- In linguistics, the term preposition is used to describe a class of words that have a specific grammatical function in a sentence.
Hypernyms
Meaning 2
(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).
Classification
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
Examples
- The function of the word as a preposition typically entails a shift from placement within to placement outside a group that immediately contains its companion term.
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