Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Occurring or placed before another word.
- noun A word or particle occurring or placed before another word.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Put before; prefixed: as, a prepositive particle.
- noun A word or particle put before another word.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Gram.) Put before; prefixed.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Put
before ; prefixed; as, a prepositive particle. - noun A prepositive
word .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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This will account for the prepositive article "Le" prefixed to the
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The use of the infinitive without the prepositive "to", is frequently extended beyond present usage, especially in ` Sordello 'and ` The Ring and the Book'.
An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry Hiram Corson 1869
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Here the subject relative of "refuses" is omitted, and the verb followed by an infinitive without the prepositive:
An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry Hiram Corson 1869
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Here are two infinitives, with the prepositive omitted,
An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry Hiram Corson 1869
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The prepositive and terminational particles are critically explained and illustrated.
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The prepositive particles dis and mis, derived from the des and mes of the
A Grammar of the English Tongue Samuel Johnson 1746
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