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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

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

A word employed to connect a 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; -- so called because usually placed before the word with which it is phrased; as, a bridge of iron; he comes from town; it is good for food; he escaped by running.

A word, followed by a noun or pronoun, as object, which shows the relation of the object to some other word; as, in the sentence. Mary went to the store, to is a preposition showing relation between store and went.

A word placed before a noun or pronoun to show its relation to some other word of the sentence.

PREPOSITIONAL.

PREPOSITIONALLY.

PREPOSITIONAL.

The part of speech that denotes the relation of an object to an action or thing.

A word usually put before a noun or a pronoun to show its relation to another word in the sentence.

In gram., one of a class of words which express the various relations subsisting between verbs, nouns, and pronouns, and are nearly always placed before the words they govern.

n. [Latin] A particle governing, and generally placed before a substantive or pronoun, which is put in an oblique owe (in English, in the, objective), and of which it expresses the relation to some other word.