Words similar to prepositions
Example sentences for: prepositions
How can you use “prepositions” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Then he has another set of rules derived from his high-school English teacher, Miss Martinet, about double negatives, final prepositions, and other unquestionables that have an aura of Mount Sinai.
Even prepositions could convey the impression of happenings.
A longish section, “Some Troublesome Idiomatic Prepositions,” and a “Glossary of Grammatical and Linguistic Terms Used in This Book,” followed by a list of “References,” sources associated with specific entries, round out the work.
The first, Nautical Prepositions, includes aback, abeam, about, abox, a-cockbill, adrift, and other words that are adverbs, not prepositions, along with ahoy and a few others beginning with a -: evidently the author believes that many nautical words beginning with a- are prepositions, which is simply not the case.
There are four appendices: Nautical Prepositions (many of which would be classed (also) as adverbs by a grammarian); Changed Spellings and Corrupted Word Forms; Nautical Terms Related to Human Anatomy; Nautical Terms Derived from the Land.