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
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
While you’re at it, eliminate unnecessary or filler words, such as prepositions or repetitive conjunctions.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 2021
Mrs. Granger jammed the whole day’s work into the last eight minutes, a blur of verbs and nouns and prepositions, and yes, there was another homework assignment.
From "Frindle" by Andrew Clements
