Example sentences for: preposition

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

  • .with the preposition of.

  • Is it just because I am English that I resent the dropping of a small preposition?

  • When Imogen rhapsodizes on the immensity of her love for her banished husband she insists it is beyond beyond . For many years I have been captivated by that phrase, created by the doubling of a fairly ordinary preposition/noun, now magically employed in just that relationship.

  • 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,

  • Compounding native English words or elements produces all classes of combinations—noun: farmhouse ; verb: understand ; adjective: twenty-one ; adverb: herewith ; preposition: into ; pronoun: someone ; conjunction: because ; interjection: good grief . It is also a gradual process, as evidenced by the sequence of to day, to-day, today .


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