Example sentences for: prepositions

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

  • 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.

  • ' However, since French compounds tend to be rather explicit, and their components are generally strung together by all kinds of grammatical particles (conjunctions, prepositions, articles), this method often leads to tapewormish constructions, such as espace extra-atmosphérique for `outer space' or boucle en épingle à cheveux for `hairpin loop.

  • 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.

  • This group includes conjunctions (an', 'n', 'cos) , prepositions (o', 'bout, b'tween) , common verb forms ('ave, spok'n, woz, wuz) and pronouns as shown in the table on the next page.


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