Example sentences for: preposition

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

  • Separate articles could have dealt with the meaning of elements like throp and such matters as the loss of initial letters, owing to confusion of preposition and name.

  • 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,

  • Morrow , Kansas, was first named after a state senator, but this name had to be changed to Morrowville “because of semantic confusion when juxtaposed with a common 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 preposition in the end of the sentence; a common fault with him, and which I have but lately observed in my own writings.


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