prepositional
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- prepositionally adverb
Example Sentences
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And I mistook a perfectly good English word, “rosé,” for the Polish prepositional phrase “o rosie,” which means “about the dew.”
From Washington Post • Feb. 23, 2023
Some worried that the locution had devolved into mere prepositional posturing.
From New York Times • Aug. 10, 2018
The White House disagreed with The Washington Post’s description, so the paper had to issue a correction noting a change of a prepositional phrase in a sentence.
From Salon • May 12, 2017
But bit by bit the language is taking shape, definite articles and nouns and indirect objects and verbs and prepositional phrases hanging off subjects and predicates and predicate complements like a Calder mobile.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 1, 2016
“Esmeralda,” she called in a musical voice, “would you please come up and mark the prepositional phrase?”
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
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