prepositions
- plural of preposition.
Example Sentences
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In a decade of crossing and re-crossing, Papi treated the border and the fences that demarcated it like an exercise in prepositions: He went around it, through it, above it, below it, past it.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 16, 2024
Auxiliary verbs are dropped, words are misspelled, prepositions are jostled, all to create a sense of vernacular authenticity.
From New York Times • Aug. 16, 2022
But the excellent words “me,” “us,” “her,” “him” and “them” are ready, willing and able to step in when needed; and they are needed after prepositions, such as “to,” “of,” for,” etc., and verbs.
From Washington Post • Apr. 22, 2022
Pronouns are one of the eight main parts of speech, the others being nouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections.
From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021
Subjunctives also turn up with certain prepositions and subordinators that specify hypothetical situations: Bridget was racked with anxiety lest her plagiarism become known.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
