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  • noun Plural form of preposition.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of preposition.

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Examples

  • Form short sentences containing these words combined with each of the prepositions which follow them, and note carefully the different relations expressed by the different prepositions_: --

    Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition Brainerd Kellogg

  • Subjunctive is used when expressing emotions, doubt, and after certain prepositions such as para que, con tal de que, a fin de que, sin que, and others.

    Quepa 2008

  • Subjunctive is used when expressing emotions, doubt, and after certain prepositions such as para que, con tal de que, a fin de que, sin que, and others.

    Quepa 2008

  • Subjunctive is used when expressing emotions, doubt, and after certain prepositions such as para que, con tal de que, a fin de que, sin que, and others.

    Quepa 2008

  • Subjunctive is used when expressing emotions, doubt, and after certain prepositions such as para que, con tal de que, a fin de que, sin que, and others.

    Quepa 2008

  • Piling up prepositions is commonplace (Zwicky cites numerous examples of unquestionably grammatical at about strings); what prescriptivists mean to complain about is piling up words of the same syntactic function, as in:

    2007 September « Motivated Grammar 2007

  • Piling up prepositions is commonplace (Zwicky cites numerous examples of unquestionably grammatical at about strings); what prescriptivists mean to complain about is piling up words of the same syntactic function, as in:

    Arnold Zwicky’s Whack-a-Peeve « Motivated Grammar 2007

  • Let dear old mother scrub all those double negatives (as if!) sentences ending in prepositions (my pet hate) and other sins against grammar but LEAVE your colloquialisms!

    coquilles 2007

  • The only reason you’d want to avoid clause-final prepositions is that they aren’t common in formal writing, and that’s the case largely because of the misguided prohibition against them.

    The no-final-prepositions rule: Not even half right. « Motivated Grammar 2010

  • The only reason you’d want to avoid clause-final prepositions is that they aren’t common in formal writing, and that’s the case largely because of the misguided prohibition against them.

    2010 September « Motivated Grammar 2010

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