Example sentences for: preposition

How can you use “preposition” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • To is not the only preposition that can kill.

  • For many years I was under the impression that John Dryden had inveighed against the ending of a sentence with a preposition, and I have included mention of it now and then in my writing.

  • There would have been a far fuller discussion of the preposition question in a separate paragraph, one that would have appeared on screen had I typed in a name, such as Elstree , where it was also relevant.

  • The interdiction is meaningless for English grammar (or style), having been carried over from Latin, where a preposition must accompany the word it is connected with syntactically and semantically; like the caveat concerning split infinitives, which cannot be split in Latin because, as in most other Indo-European languages, they are single words, unsplittable nuclei, unlike the atom,

  • There were also some other parts of speech: one definition for the preposition and three for the verb (participial) senses.


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