Associations to the word «Preposition»

PREPOSITION, noun. (grammar) Any of a closed class of non-inflecting words typically employed to connect a following noun or a pronoun, in an adjectival or adverbial sense, with some other word: a particle used with a noun or pronoun (in English always in the objective case) to make a phrase limiting some other word.

PREPOSITION, noun. (obsolete) A proposition; an exposition; a discourse.

PREPOSITION, verb. To place in a location before some other event occurs.

PREPOSITION OF PLACE, noun. Preposition indicating localisation of object, e.g. on the field or in the field.

PREPOSITION, noun. A function word that combines with a noun or pronoun or noun phrase to form a prepositional phrase that can have an adverbial or adjectival relation to some other word.

PREPOSITION, noun. (linguistics) the placing of one linguistic element before another (as placing a modifier before the word it modifies in a sentence or placing an affix before the base to which it is attached).