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nouna 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 wordtype of:
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noun(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)
Definition that contains preposition
- to The preposition to primarily indicates approach and arrival, motion made in the direction of a place or thing and attaining it, access; and also, motion or tendency without arrival; movement toward.
- than A particle expressing comparison, used after certain adjectives and adverbs which express comparison or diversity, as more, better, other, otherwise, and the like. It is usually followed by the object compared in the nominative case. Sometimes, however, the object compared is placed in the objective case, and than is then considered by some grammarians as a preposition. Sometimes the object is expressed in a sentence, usually introduced by that.
- neighborhood the approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in `in the region of')
- region the approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in `in the region of')
- objective serving as or indicating the object of a verb or of certain prepositions and used for certain other purposes
- noun the word class that can serve as the subject or object of a verb, the object of a preposition, or in apposition
- 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
- prepositional of or relating to or formed with a preposition
- prepositionally as a preposition
- prepositional object the object governed by a preposition