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preposition

preposition (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)

class, type of string

Class: type of string
Examples: ▶
"worth", "without", "vice", "via", "versus", …
"upon", "up", "until", "unlike", "underneath", "under", "towards", "toward", "times", "till", "throughout", "through", "than", "since", "save", "round", "regarding", "qua", "pro", "per", "plus", "past", "pace", "over", "outside", "out", "opposite", "onto", "on", "off", "notwithstanding", "next", "minus", "midst", "mid", "like", "inside", "including", "given", "following", "failing", "excluding", "except", "despite", "down", "concerning", "circa", "but", "betwixt", "beyond", "between", "besides", "beside", "beneath", "below", "behind", "barring", "atop", "athwart", "astride", "aside", "as", "around", "amongst", "among", "amidst", "amid", "alongside", "along", "against", "across", "absent", "about", "aboard", "above", "after", "before", "during", "near", "within", "into", "from", "for", "with", "to", "of", "at", "in", "by"
Parent Class: string, word
Types: locative preposition
Wordnet Synset ID: "106325145"
Never: capable of movement
Names: "preposition"
Distinct From: ▶
interrogative word, verb, english indefinite article, article, non-rhyming English word, …
noun

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Preposition and postposition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Prepositions (or more generally, adpositions, see below) are a grammatically distinct class of words whose most central members characteristically express spatial relations ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preposition

What is a Preposition?

This site uses the Oxford English dictionary spelling. The Writing Centre Simard Hall Room 0021 60 University P.O. Box 450 Station A, Ottawa, ON Canada K1N 6N5

http://www.writingcentre.uottawa.ca/hypergrammar/preposit.html

Preposition | Define Preposition at Dictionary.com

noun Grammar. any member of a class of words found in many languages that are used before nouns, pronouns, or other substantives to form phrases functioning as modifiers of ...

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List of English prepositions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

as long as; Preposition + (article) + noun + preposition. English has a number of idiomatic expressions which act as prepositions, but can be analyzed as a preposition followed by a ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_prepositions

preposition: Definition from Answers.com

preposition n. ( Abbr. prep. ) A word or phrase placed typically before a substantive and indicating the relation of that substantive to a verb, an adjective,

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