The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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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
“And while prepositions are useful for placement, they ultimately don’t have the muscle, the velocity of a verb.”
From Washington Post ● Oct. 20, 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
They move with the stilted stage cadence of a slam poem, with awkward breaks, including some after verbs and prepositions, just to hammer home the wordplay and rhyme.
From New York Times ● Oct. 13, 2021
I lacked even a basic knowledge of grammar, though I was learning, beginning with nouns and moving on to prepositions and gerunds.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
