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A PREPOSITION is a word which serves to connect words, and show the relation between them.
English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Samuel Kirkham
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_The order of parsing a_ PREPOSITION, is -- a preposition, and why?
English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Samuel Kirkham
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PREPOSITION; a word used to join a substantive, as a modifier, to some other preceding word, and to show the relation of the substantive to that word; as, _by, in, between, beyond_.
Practical Grammar and Composition Thomas Wood
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EN, _PREPOSITION_, from the Latin _in_, offers no stumbling-block save in its second use = "as" or "like."
Esther Jean Baptiste Racine 1669
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