Words similar to prepositional
Example sentences for: prepositional
How can you use “prepositional” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
He used a noun, two prepositional phrases and a string of adjectives that would make anyone proud.
The last group falls into what I call prepositional trouble, as in That one threw me over the deep end .
These are: prepositional phrase, participial phrase, gerund phrase, infinitive phrase, adverb clause, adjective clause, and noun clause.
Not that he would think in such simplistic terms: his historical knowledge of prepositional usage would have made such reasoning unnecessary.
The two objections I see with this would-be super-short supersentence are, first, the highly elliptical and not terribly idiomatic omission of any overt identification of the clausal status of the word painful , and second, the analysis of the thoroughly idiomatic three-word phrase, you're disgusted by as an adjective clause containing a participial phrase and a rather elliptical prepositional phrase.