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单词 prepositional
例句 prepositional
“Esmeralda,” she called in a musical voice, “would you please come up and mark the prepositional phrase?” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z
Then she claps her hands and starts talking about prepositional phrases. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z
He laments the prepositional evasions in academic and managerial writing: all those “notions of” and “issues surrounding.” Want to Learn How to ‘Nail the Jelly of Reality to the Wall’? 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z
The White House disagreed with The Washington Post’s description, so the paper had to issue a correction noting a change of a prepositional phrase in a sentence. WATCH: Seth Meyers mocks President Trump for contradicting his own White House on the story of James Comey’s firing 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z
But she points out that even when using an algorithm and controlling for prepositional phrases and the like, significant overlap occurs between the lists of most frequently used words in high-peace and low-peace countries. What Peace Speech -- the Benign Twin of Hate Speech -- Says About a Country 2023-11-01T04:00:00Z
And I mistook a perfectly good English word, “rosé,” for the Polish prepositional phrase “o rosie,” which means “about the dew.” Working with the poet who told us to ‘Praise the Mutilated World’ 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z
Some worried that the locution had devolved into mere prepositional posturing. Opinion | Go Ahead, Speak for Yourself 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z
But what really gets me is the order of the words, the clustering of all those prepositional phrases near the start. Opinion | The Magic and Moral of Joan Didion 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z
But bit by bit the language is taking shape, definite articles and nouns and indirect objects and verbs and prepositional phrases hanging off subjects and predicates and predicate complements like a Calder mobile. Love in Translation 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z
Another awkwardly placed prepositional phrase; he’s not resigning from any newspapers. Words We Love Too Much 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z
As often happens, an intervening prepositional phrase apparently made us lose sight of the actual subject. Ugly Disagreements 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z
In this case, “either” was followed by a prepositional phrase, but “or” wasn’t. Red Pencils Ready? 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z
Don’t be led astray by the prepositional phrase “of news media attention and intrigue.” Whom Goes There? 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z
Don’t be led astray by the intervening prepositional phrase. Ugly Disagreements 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z
Border collie comprehends sentences containing a prepositional object, verb and direct object. How to Teach Language to Dogs 2013-07-30T20:45:03.377Z
Sprat. µ According to has been called a prepositional phrase, but strictly speaking, according is a participle in the sense of agreeing, acceding, and to alone is the preposition. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z
We were led astray by the plural noun “encounters” in the prepositional phrase. Red Pencils Ready? 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z
The rhythmical structure of the piece, it seems to us, supplies the key to its explanation, and reduces to order its long-drawn and heaped-up relative and prepositional clauses, which are grammatically so unmanageable. The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians 2012-03-20T02:00:11.133Z
And may not join one word and a phrase, nor may it join a prepositional and a participial phrase. Business English A Practice Book 2011-11-19T03:00:25.507Z
Spite is not a preposition, but an adverb, and to translate the prepositional form "in spite of" it is usually better to use malgraŭ, as indicated above under the reference to p. The International Auxiliary Language Esperanto Grammar and Commentary 2011-04-12T02:00:28.753Z
Several old genitives and plural forms continued to exist, and the dative or prepositional case has usually a final e. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z
In Goidelic the stress, which is strongly expiratory, is always placed on the first syllable except in certain cases in verbs compounded with prepositional prefixes. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt"
His sentences are not composed; they are spun in a continuous thread, an endless chain of prepositional, participial, and relative adjuncts. The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians 2012-03-20T02:00:11.133Z
Lead Beginning with a Phrase.—Infinitive, participial, and prepositional phrases are valuable mainly for bringing out emphatic details. News Writing The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories
Prepositional expressions.—Adverbs are not unfrequently followed by prepositions, thus forming prepositional expressions which take the nominative case, like simple prepositions. The International Auxiliary Language Esperanto Grammar and Commentary 2011-04-12T02:00:28.753Z
Discriminating writers place minor ideas in subordinate clauses, consign still less important ideas to participial or prepositional phrases, and omit trivial details altogether. The Century Handbook of Writing
The relation of the predicate category to the subject is not entirely a logical one; it is a relation of real existence, and wants the essential marks of the prepositional form. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt"
This final prepositional clause should be separated by a comma from the words immediately foregoing; it forms a distinct predicate to the sentence contained in verse 12. The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians 2012-03-20T02:00:11.133Z
Notice also that the prepositional prefixes to verbs express different ideas in different combinations. Helps to Latin Translation at Sight
For our preposition "during" he generally uses the accusative of duration, or the prepositional expression en la daŭro de, or simply en, or turns the phrase by employing an adverbial present participle. The International Auxiliary Language Esperanto Grammar and Commentary 2011-04-12T02:00:28.753Z
The prepositional form.—This is used after the majority of English verbs, as, I wish to speak, I mean to go, I intend to come, I determine to move. A Handbook of the English Language
If it deserves more notice, perhaps a prepositional phrase will express it. English: Composition and Literature
If I have correctly analyzed them they contain the following elements compared in this paper: words and verb roots, 9 times, pronouns 19 times, prepositional and pronominal prefixes 35 times. The Dakotan Languages, and Their Relations to Other Languages
Thus, sometimes the prefix has a somewhat literal prepositional force. Helps to Latin Translation at Sight
Spite is not a preposition, but an adverb, and to translate the prepositional form "in spite of" it is usually better to use malgraŭ. The International Auxiliary Language Esperanto Grammar and Commentary 2011-04-12T02:00:28.753Z
Very often this lead may be handled by means of a prepositional phrase at the beginning. Newspaper Reporting and Correspondence A Manual for Reporters, Correspondents, and Students of Newspaper Writing
Where the succession of possessives is unpleasant or confusing, the substitution of a prepositional phrase should be made; as, the house of the mother of Charles's partner, instead of, Charles's partner's mother's house. Practical Grammar and Composition
The prepositional particle mono, when placed before an abstract or verbal noun, forms a noun which indicates the subject who does the action; e.g., mono before caqi makes monocaqi 'one who writes.' Diego Collado's Grammar of the Japanese Language
Prepositions may often be found as particles incorporated in verbs, and, still further, verbs may contain within themselves prepositional meanings without our being able to trace such meanings to any definite particles within the verb. On the Evolution of Language First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 1-16
The Latin avoids the use of prepositional phrases as modifiers of a Noun. New Latin Grammar
In this case the prepositional phrase modifies the subject and should not be far from it. Newspaper Reporting and Correspondence A Manual for Reporters, Correspondents, and Students of Newspaper Writing
If it is a prepositional phrase, determine whether it is used as an adjective or as an adverb. Practical Grammar and Composition
I have not found the prepositional use of the word in Eng. Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch
The prepositional particles perform the function of indicating a great variety of subordinate relations, like the prepositions used as distinct parts of speech in English. On the Evolution of Language First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 1-16
This use needs to be watched closely, to see whether the preposition belongs to the verb or has a separate prepositional function. An English Grammar
Participial Phrase.—Very much like the prepositional phrase beginning is the participial beginning. Newspaper Reporting and Correspondence A Manual for Reporters, Correspondents, and Students of Newspaper Writing
Here, too, "singing" is a noun; but now its verbal character has disappeared, for it is modified by an adjective "blithe," and instead of a direct object we have the prepositional phrase "of merry songs." Practical Exercises in English
Prepositional Phrases.+—The preposition, with its object, forms what is termed a prepositional phrase. Composition-Rhetoric
Typically, the first unit is a simple sentence, the second almost any grammatical structure—an appositive, a prepositional phrase, a participle, the second element of a compound verb, a dependent clause. Fragments of Ancient Poetry
Before the prepositional phrase: The boat is sailing | across the river. The Canadian Elocutionist
Another variation of this is the prepositional phrase of time, modifying the verb; e.g., Newspaper Reporting and Correspondence A Manual for Reporters, Correspondents, and Students of Newspaper Writing
The +participle+ may be used as +principal word+ in a +prepositional phrase+. Higher Lessons in English A work on English grammar and composition
The Objective Case of a noun or pronoun denotes its office as object complement, or as principal word in a prepositional phrase+. Graded Lessons in English An Elementary English Grammar Consisting of One Hundred Practical Lessons, Carefully Graded and Adapted to the Class-Room
The +noun clause+ may be used as +principal term+ of a +prepositional phrase+. Higher Lessons in English A work on English grammar and composition
As a verb it has an object complement, songs; and as a noun it names the act, and stands as the principal word in a prepositional phrase. Higher Lessons in English A work on English grammar and composition
A noun or pronoun used as object or objective complement, or as the principal word of a prepositional phrase, is in the objective case. Graded Lessons in English An Elementary English Grammar Consisting of One Hundred Practical Lessons, Carefully Graded and Adapted to the Class-Room
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