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pre-position
The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military
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2001
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pre-position v. place military units, equipment, or supplies at or near the point of planned use, or at a designated location, in order to reduce reaction time and to ensure timely support of a specific force during initial phases of an operation.
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Towards a more analytic expression of grammatical relationships: the use of prepositions and adverbs in early English correspondence.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies; 8/6/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...following example, such uses of prepositions closely resemble those found...in London. (61: 85) Prepositions often occur in collocations...for some variation of the preposition, e.g., 2) Daultons...parte. (RCII 121: 564) Prepositions may also be necessary elements...
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Prepositions and Pictures in the English Learning Materials
Magazine article from: K@ta; 12/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...This paper explores the types of prepositions and the common picture types used to teach these prepositions found in English textbooks commonly...affect the understanding and use of prepositions. Ideally all accompanying pictures...
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On the multifunctionality of compound prepositions in Indonesian.
Magazine article from: Oceanic Linguistics; 12/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...they can with simple prepositions. This paper examines...function of compound prepositions in Indonesian. (2) Indonesian compound prepositions are formed by adding...Noun") to a simple preposition. For example, the...
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THE ROLE OF CUED SPEECH IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF SPANISH PREPOSITIONS
Magazine article from: American Annals of the Deaf; 10/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...especially the acquisition and use of prepositions in Spanish, a lexical category with...deafness can achieve in the command of prepositions, depending on the system of communication...degrees, to the acquisition of Spanish prepositions, with the best results being obtained...
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I SEEM TO BE A PREPOSITION
Magazine article from: Academe; 9/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...provost is like a preposition. This simile makes...you think about what prepositions do - link words...Thinking of provosts as prepositions also reinforces what...not revolve around prepositions, of course, and...I think being a preposition will be interesting...
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Go ahead, end it with a preposition
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 4/21/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...a sentence with a preposition originated in the...offended by terminal prepositions in English. His strictures...constructions the apparent prepositions (with, of, over...function as ordinary prepositions. They "approach...verbs, in which the preposition is an inseparable...
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The Middle English preposition in: a semantic analysis (1).(Linguistics)
Magazine article from: Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies; 1/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...specifying the roles of the preposition in, Bennet states...the topological prepositions at, on and in are...complements monitor the preposition. Thus, a large city...that the topological prepositions at, on and in indicate...complement of the preposition in is seen as an area...
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Aw, Prepositions Are OK to End Sentences With
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 6/28/1992; ; 700+ words
; ...see what they take to be a preposition at the end of a sentence...the Old Guard may not be a preposition at all. It may be part of...rule, it is better to put a preposition where it usually belongs...can sensibly be taken to prepositions that are indispensably part...
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End it with a preposition if you want to.(Life-Today)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 1/21/2007; 700+ words
; ...ending a sentence with a preposition be applied to a thought within...against ending a thought with a preposition would apply if it really...a better place to put the preposition. I could just as easily...formal when it has all its prepositions neatly buttoned up and tucked...
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Prepositions. (Three poems).(Poem)
Magazine article from: New Criterion; 1/1/2002; ; 472 words
; Prepositions After, about, above...paces with a long list of prepositions: A catalogue of locus...mnemonic chant. What's a preposition? If I ask, she rolls...beyond her, asinine as prepositions--tethers verbs and...
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PREPOSITION
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...that few new prepositions ever enter a language. Kinds of preposition (1) Simple...2) Compound preposition. Two prepositions used together...not end with a preposition. However, although English prepositions often do precede...
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preposition
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
preposition XIV. — L. præpositiō , -ōn- putting before, preposition, f. præpōnere ; see PRE- POSITION .
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PREPOSITIONAL VERB
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...often idiomatic combination of VERB and PREPOSITION : approve of in They fully approved...accident . The phrase that follows the preposition ( the children in Look after the children...them coming between the verb and the preposition: blame on in Blame the noise on the...
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part of speech
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...speech are noun , verb , adjective , adverb, interjection , preposition , conjunction , and pronoun . Some grammarians add articles...others, with functional rather than lexical meaning (prepositions, articles, conjunctions) are nonproductive, having a...
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ADVERB
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...modifying adjectives and adverbs, some adverbs may modify prepositions ( well in He kicked the ball well past the line ), certain...Some adverbs may also function as the complement of certain prepositions ( now in the phrase by now ). (3) Like gradable adjectives...
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