| 单词 | preposition |
| 释义 | preposition (once / 3623 pages) 1n 2n A preposition is the part of speech that shows a relationship between words. Think of “anywhere a cat can go.” A cat can go “under” the table, “on” the bed, or “out” the door. Looking for a cat? Use a preposition. In the sentence "The car went careening into the ditch," the preposition is into: it's the word that points to the noun. "We love to chase kids around the carnival in our scary clown costumes" has two prepositions, around and in. They tell you where things are happening. The most common prepositions are of, to, in, for, on, with, as, by, at, and from. WORD FAMILYpreposition: prepositional, prepositions+/interpose: interposed, interposes, interposing, interposition/interposition: interpositions/pose: interpose, posed, poser, poses, posing, postpose, prepose/posed: posedly, unposed/poser: posers/posing: posings/postpose: postposing, postposition/postposition: postpositions/prepose: preposed, preposes, preposition/prepositional: prepositionally USAGE EXAMPLESStewart may be reaching out to a new audience, but she won’t be ending a sentence with a preposition anytime soon. The New Yorker(Nov 17, 2016) Take the so-called rule against ending sentences with a preposition. Economist(Sep 22, 2016) The worst of times was, he could take a four-hour shoot and turn it into an eight-hour shoot by changing articles and prepositions.” New York Times(Sep 12, 2016) 1 n 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 2Hyper closed-class word, function word a word that is uninflected and serves a grammatical function but has little identifiable meaning n (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) Hyper place, position an item on a list or in a sequence |
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