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Prepositional case

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prepositionalOf, pertaining to, or of the nature of a preposition.
prepositionnoun(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.
prepositional phrasenoun(grammar) A phrase containing both a preposition and its object or complement and which may be used as an adjunct or a modifier.
postpositionnoun(grammar) A word that has the same purpose as a preposition but comes after the noun.
preverbnoun(grammar) A separable verb prefix or a particle that precedes a verb.
præpositionnounObsolete spelling of preposition. [(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.]
prep.noun(grammar) Abbreviation of preposition. [(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.]
prepnoun(informal, countable) A prep school.
prepositionhoodnoun(linguistics) The property of being a preposition.
preposition of placenounPreposition indicating localisation of object, e.g. on the field or in the field.
propositionnoun(countable) An idea, plan, or suggestion offered.
antessive casenoun(grammar) The grammatical case that indicates the spatial relation of preceding or being before something.
prepositional articlenoun(grammar) In some languages, such as French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish, a contraction of a preposition and an article, e.g. au in French (a contraction of à and le).
prepositional verbnoun(linguistics) A two-word phrase, consisting of a verb and a preposition, that has idiomatic meaning.
prolative casenoun(grammar) A declension, in some languages, of a noun or pronoun that has the basic meaning of "by way of".
prepositional pronounnounIn certain Romance languages, the pronoun form which must be used following a preposition.
postpositional(grammar) Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a postposition.
postpositioningnoun(grammar) An instance where a modifier appears after the noun it modifies.
prosecutive casenoun(grammar) A special form of the prolative case used to describe movement along a surface or way.
prepositive adjectivenoun(grammar) An adjective that occurs on an antecedent basis within a noun phrase.

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