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A Preposition is a word placed before a noun or pronoun, to show the relation between it, and some other word or words in the sentence.
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A Preposition is a word which shows the relation between its objective case and some other word in the same sentence.
Our Own Primary Grammar for the Use of Beginners. Charles Winslow 1861
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Preposition patrol, and getting rid of extra words that can usually go.
Re-Write Wednesday: Lighten Up! Janice Hardy 2010
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Preposition-ending sentences are something up with which I will not put.
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Preposition/prepositional phrase, dependent clause.
August 2009 2009
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Watch TNT tonight and see the premier of the TNT-exclusive, “Adjective Preposition Noun” starring Steven Seagal and Flava Flav.
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The Verbs of their language no more possessing tenses, than their Nouns Case-Endings, for these People remain'd as careless of Sequences in Time as disengaged from Subjects, Objects, Possession, or indeed anything which might among Englishmen require a Preposition.
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Preposition high energy biscuits or other convenient food (preferably types requiring little or no cooking) and distribute them at way stations;
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Preposition sufficient quantities of water treatment chemicals at way-stations and/or water collection points;
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For Anastrophe, by which a Preposition is put after its case, see §
New Latin Grammar Charles E. Bennett
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