Crossword clues for preposition
preposition
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Preposition \Prep`o*si"tion\, n. [L. praepositio, fr. praeponere to place before; prae before + ponere to put, place: cf. F. pr['e]position. See Position, and cf. Provost.]
(Gram.) 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.
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A proposition; an exposition; a discourse. [Obs.]
He made a long preposition and oration.
--Fabyan.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Latin praepositionem (nominative praepositio) "a putting before, a prefixing," noun of action from past participle stem of praeponere "put before," from prae "before" (see pre-) + ponere "put, set, place" (past participle positus; see position (n.)). In grammatical use, a loan-translation of Greek prothesis, literally "a setting before."
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 alt. 1 (context grammar English) Any of a closed class of non-inflecting words typically employed to connect a noun or a pronoun, in an adjective or adverb 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. 2 (context obsolete English) A proposition; an exposition; a discourse. n. 1 (context grammar English) Any of a closed class of non-inflecting words typically employed to connect a noun or a pronoun, in an adjective or adverb 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. 2 (context obsolete English) A proposition; an exposition; a discourse. Etymology 2
alt. To place in a location before some other event occurs. vb. To place in a location before some other event occurs.
WordNet
n. 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)
Usage examples of "preposition".
Noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, participle, conjunction, preposition, interjection.
Remember that the objective case follows transitive verbs and prepositions.
Anglo-Saxon element supplies the essential parts of speech, the article, pronoun of all kinds, the preposition, the auxiliary verbs, the conjunctions, and the little particles which bind words into sentences and form the joints, sinews and ligaments of the language.
Still, no thorough discussion of prepositions or conjunctions as such seems necessary: in Quenya they seem to behave pretty much like their English equivalents, so for the most part you simply have to learn the corresponding Quenya words.
This doctrine reinforces American advantages in strategic mobility, prepositioning, technology, training, and in fielding integrated military systems to provide and retain superiority, and responds to the minimum casualty and collateral damage criteria set first in the Reagan Administration.
Quenya does have separate prepositions that could express the same meanings.
When such words are joined in a compound construction, all the appropriate prepositions must be included, unless they are the same.
Never commence a sentence with And, But, Since, Because, and other similar weak words and never end it with prepositions, small, weak adverbs or pronouns.
I shall love, Munasa--and that the affixes denoting cases in the noun are curiously like the Greek prepositions.
NOTE: In the keys to this exercise, the following simplified "equivalents" are used: genitives and possessive-adjectival forms are all turned into "of"-constructions, dative forms are represented as prepositional phrases in "for", whereas allative and ablative forms are represented as phrases involving the prepositions "to" and "from", respectively.
Yet Quenya often dispenses with prepositions, using special case forms instead, as when "to, towards" is normally expressed by the allative ending -nna, whereas "from" is usually expressed by means of the ablative ending -llo though Quenya does have separate prepositions that could express the same meanings.
For instance, the ending -nna for allative is obviously related to the preposition na or ana, likewise meaning "to, towards".
Cennen(yë) yulmarya máryatsë, i yulma yallo ulyanes limpë mir antorya (or, antoryanna, using a simple allative instead of the preposition mir).
Some would even analyze et "out" as a preposition governing the ablative case (like ú "without" governs the genitive case).
The plaintiff will be awarded an attorney's fee in this court and in the court below both to be fixed by the district court upon there, billings disbursements depositions prepositions all of it, the more the better, limousines, airplanes, Mister Basic flying around the country buying drinks for the house in the Beverly Wilshire all of it, give them a nice tax writeoff isn't that what you said?