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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.
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.
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.
He found misplacement problems, mistakes in parallel structures, improper use of commas, wrong or missing prepositions, incorrect use of reflexive verbs, etc. “The Census Bureau,” he wrote, “has had 10 long years to get its forms straight.”
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.
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