Preposition

Language: English
Pronunciation: pre-pos-i-tion
Part of Speech: noun

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(grammar, strict sense) Any of a 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.

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"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"

"as placing a modifier before the word it modifies in a sentence or placing an affix before the base to which it is attached"

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