| The preposition of inclusion in the subtitle better represents the argument than does the conjunction in the main clause. |
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| A conspectus of his doctrines is given in the Syntax, which deals mainly with article, pronoun, verb, preposition, and adverb, successively. |
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| I know about than the preposition vs. than the introducer of elliptical clauses, but this example took me aback. |
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| The Greek preposition had several meanings, depending on whether it governed the accusative, genitive, or dative case. |
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| You will find many sentences beginning with conjunctions and many ending with a preposition. |
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| I was about to finish a sentence with a preposition there, something I never do. |
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| The ungrammaticality shows nothing about whether or not preposition stranding ordinarily sounds ungrammatical. |
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| However, there is no textual or versional evidence for such a reading and the compound preposition is not in itself objectionable. |
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| Earlier forerunners rely entirely on intransitive or quasi-transitive verbs, with the object preceded by a preposition. |
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| Furthermore, the verbs are usually transitive, though occasionally they are used intransitively with a preposition like for, of, or about introducing the object. |
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| Back came the speech with no word save a notation that one of the sentences ended with a preposition, and an indication where the error should be eliminated. |
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| Like participles, adjectives and also some idiomatic preposition phrases, when used as adjuncts, need an understood subject to be filled in if they are to be understood. |
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| A good comedy movie is also one that is dripping with humour in small doses, so that even a preposition or a pronoun at a given moment seems hilarious. |
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| It will be shown that a semantic fit between the sortal restrictions activated by the preposition and a depicted object results in inhibitory effects. |
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| In prepositional phrases, a preposition like on, of, above or near pairs with an object — often a noun, sometimes with adjectives. |
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| The City of Chicago is an example of the prepositional place-name, but in common use the preposition and the generic are dropped. |
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| Anarchy seems to reign when it comes to choosing the preposition that follows prévu: here, usage flouts all rules. |
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| The torrential rains reported throughout the region are also disrupting efforts to preposition needed food supplies. |
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| Costs could have been reduced if NGOs were able to preposition emergency supplies, in the absence of regional stocks for responding to epidemics. |
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| With is a good preposition not because it encompasses collective management practices but because it provides functional unity. |
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| Given the volatile situation emergency preparedness planning and the preposition of critical supplies for basic health continued. |
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| The preposition ek which is also used by Paul in the passage quoted above, indicates origin. |
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| In other cases, the heading will be entered under the part of the name which follows the preposition. |
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| A handful of examples apart, an English preposition precedes its complement. |
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| This prepositionary will help learners of French, occasional writers and language professionals easily find the preposition that goes with the verb, adverb or adjective they wish to use. |
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| Accordingly, word classes such as adjective and preposition, which presuppose the existence of the noun phrase and prepositional phrase, are of equally doubtful validity. |
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| The preposition is also used to introduce the complements of many intransitive verbs. |
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| The first part of a compound word is either a noun, an adverb, or a preposition, and in a very few cases a verb. |
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| The term objective case is then used for the oblique case, which covers the roles of accusative, dative, and objects of a preposition. |
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| One preposition, near, also has a superlative form, as in Find the restaurant nearest your house. |
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| There are at least three main types of phrasal verb constructions depending on whether the verb combines with a preposition, a particle, or both. |
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| The relative pronoun dem is neuter singular to agree with Haus, but dative because it follows a preposition in its own clause. |
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| The word or other morpheme that corresponds to an English preposition occurs after its complement, hence the name postposition. |
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| Circumpositional phrases involve both a preposition and a postposition, whereby the complement appears between the two. |
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| The dictionary has separated proclitic prepositions and preposition clusters occurring with nouns into subentries and individual lexemes. |
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| The examples given below are listed under traditional part-of-speech labels such as preposition, coordinating conjunction, etc. |
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| Now the layers are eliminated by this preposition. |
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| In English, most phrasal prepositions consist of an adverbial followed by a one-word preposition. |
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| There is, from Early Latin onwards, a causal-final use of the preposition de with adjectives like lassus and sollicitus. |
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| The postpositions which designate the search domain and the general locative preposition are omissible under certain conditions. |
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| For example, in the phrase I gave it to him, the preposition to marks the recipient, or Indirect Object of the verb to give. |
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| In terms of intonation the preposition is fused to the verb, but in writing it is written as a separate word. |
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| In colloquial Latin, the preposition ad followed by the accusative was sometimes used as a substitute for the dative case. |
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| Note the sometimes identical form of the uninflected preposition and its third person singular masculine inflected form. |
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| A single preposition may have a variety of meanings, often including temporal, spatial and abstract. |
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| A preposition together with its complement is called a prepositional phrase. |
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| If the agent is mentioned, it usually appears in a prepositional phrase introduced by the preposition by. |
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| For example, preposition stranding occurs widely in Germanic languages and has a long history in English. |
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| Also, if the object of a preposition was marked in the dative case, a preposition may conceivably be located anywhere in the sentence. |
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| A role that one of these languages marks by case will often be marked in English using a preposition. |
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| Some people think it is wrong to end a sentence with a preposition, but the construction is quite common in English. |
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| Thirty-six concise chapters discuss the potential stylistic benefits of split infinitives, the passive voice, and ending a sentence with a preposition. |
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| Just as in the disappearing dative case, colloquial Latin sometimes replaced the disappearing genitive case with the preposition de followed by the ablative. |
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| For instance, preposition stranding is largely absent from many of the other Germanic languages and it may be completely absent from the Romance languages. |
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| It is important to preposition the material before turning on the machine. |
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| It can refer to either persons or things, and cannot follow a preposition. |
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| An infinitive form, that uses the plain form of the verb and the preposition to, is used for verbal clauses that are syntactically subordinate to a finite verbal clause. |
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| A preposition is usually used with a noun phrase as its complement. |
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| A prepositional object is one that is introduced by a preposition. |
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| Phrasal verbs that include a preposition are known as prepositional verbs and phrasal verbs that include a particle are also known as particle verbs. |
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| In sentences of the second type, a stranded preposition is left. |
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| In English clauses with a verb in the passive voice, for instance, the topic is typically the subject, while the agent may be omitted or may follow the preposition by. |
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| In the North and in the South-West, the preposition was almost unattested but still available, as demonstrated by the presence of three occurrences of twen in two texts. |
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| The object of the preposition will often have more than one modifier. |
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