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How to pronounce “preposition”
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Pronunciation guide for preposition
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- Practice the English pronunciation of preposition with real speech in context.
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This one's called a preposition because the thing
- Definition summary
- (grammar, strict sense) Any of a class of non-inflecting words and multiword terms 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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How to pronounce preposition
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This one's called a preposition because the thing
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “preposition”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- (grammar, strict sense) Any of a class of non-inflecting words and multiword terms 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.
- (grammar, broad sense) An adposition.
- (obsolete) A proposition; an exposition; a discourse.
- [Verb]
- (sometimes proscribed) Alternative spelling of pre-position.
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