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- adjective That are placed
after aname
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Examples
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One such award is signified for the General by the post-nominal abbreviation, "V.C." which in this instance stands for "Victorious Cross".
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May it not be, then, that he and him, we and us, are not so much subjective and objective forms as pre-verbal and post-verbal 21 forms, very much as my and mine are now pre-nominal and post-nominal forms of the possessive (my father but father mine; it is my book but the book is mine)?
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I don't think you get a post-nominal for being a member of Midwestern Airlines 'frequent flyer scheme. [/quote]
Army Rumour Service 2010
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Head of State, permit usage of the honour as a post-nominal but not as a title before their name.
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I don't think you get a post-nominal for being a member of Midwestern Airlines 'frequent flyer scheme. [/quote]
Army Rumour Service 2010
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I don't think you get a post-nominal for being a member of Midwestern Airlines 'frequent flyer scheme.
Army Rumour Service 2010
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I don't think you get a post-nominal for being a member of Midwestern Airlines 'frequent flyer scheme.
Army Rumour Service 2010
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I always include post-nominal letters to a person's name, whether I be referring to them in correspondence or on LBNI.
British Blogs 2009
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Since the Earl of Drudge had post-nominal letters and was a Field Marshal, the King assumed the Earl knew what he was talking about, and did so.
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Another BrE-particular temporal gone is the use of gone as a post-nominal (i.e. after the noun) modifier that means 'ago', as in this example from kultureflash (London):
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