Other parts of speech, in a state of inflection, may be used with a prepositional sense.
A prepositional phrase: "His frame is on a larger scale;" "The marks were of a kind not to be mistaken.
Prepositional phrase: "Are the opinions of a man on right and wrong on fate and causation, at the mercy of a broken sleep or an indigestion?
There is one kind of expression that is really an infinitive, though disguised as a prepositional phrase: "It is hard for honest men to separate their country from their party, or their religion from their sect.
Prepositional phrase: "My antagonist would render my poniard and my speed of no use to me.
This use needs to be watched closely, to see whether the preposition belongs to the verb or has a separate prepositional function.
Since a preposition introduces a phrase and shows the relation between two things, it is necessary, first of all, to find the object of the preposition, and then to find what word the prepositional phrase limits.
The Latin avoids the use of prepositional phrases as modifiers of a Noun.
The instance cited there is prepositional in character rather than adverbial: 'Immediatli at next to the now bifore alleggid text of Peter this proces folewith.
Whatever there is of declension is prepositional as in English, and possessives are formed by putting the adjectives after the noun as in Italian.
The nominative is rare, also the accusative and ablative, except in prepositional constructions.
Instead of the genitive depending on a substantive, an equivalent adjective or a prepositional expression is often used.
Instead of the genitive, an adjective is often used to express such relations; less frequently a prepositional construction: as, (a.
Discriminating writers place minor ideas in subordinate clauses, consign still less important ideas to participial or prepositional phrases, and omit trivial details altogether.
Correlatives should usually be followed by elements parallel in form; if a predicate follows one, a predicate should follow the other; if a prepositional phrase follows one, a prepositional phrase should follow the other; and so on.
Examples: With a whistle and a roar the train arrived [prepositional phrase].
That all substantives could be changed into verbs; that there were a stock of adjective and prepositional participles, and that the mode of forming compounds and derivatives was varied, but all subject to the most exact rules.
A prepositional phrase, used as an adjective, consists of the preposition and the noun which is its object, together with its modifiers.
The preposition, with its object and the modifiers of the object, forms a phrase which we call a prepositional phrase.
Exercise 9 Note in the following sentences, the prepositional phrases which are connected by co-ordinate conjunctions.
In the first three paragraphs the prepositional phrases are printed in italics.
So the preposition has given us a new means of expression, the prepositional phrase.
These prepositional phrases may be used either as adjectives or as adverbs, so we have our definitions: +A preposition is a word that shows the relation of its object to some other word.
And we can also use the prepositional phrase to express relationship which we cannot express by a single adjective or adverb.
If it deserves more notice, perhaps a prepositionalphrase will express it.
Prepositional phrase modifying noun subject: The flooding of the pond made the ice smooth.
And may not join one word and a phrase, nor may it join a prepositional and a participial phrase.
Prepositional adverbial phrases may express the following ideas: Time, telling when something happened.
Exercise 68--Prepositional Phrases= Illustrations Adjective: The opinions of some people must be taken with caution.
Write a sentence containing a prepositional phrase telling: 1.
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.
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.
The preposition, with its object, forms what is termed a prepositional phrase.
Names of inanimate objects usually substitute prepositional phrases to denote possession: [The hardness of the rock, not The rock's hardness].
Neb (earlier nep, and in late Cornish sometimes leb) is also used as a relative, with similar construction to that of a in the objective or prepositional condition.
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.
For this adverbial use of all (here modifying the followingprepositional phrase), compare Il Pens.
A noun or pronoun used as object or objective complement, or as the principal word of a prepositional phrase, is in the objective case.
The Objective Case of a noun or pronoun denotes its office as object complement, or as principal word in a prepositional phrase+.
A phrase consisting of a preposition and its object, with or without other words, is called a prepositional phrase.
Adjective or adverbial phrases consisting of a preposition and its object, with or without other words, may be called prepositional phrases.
In these sentences, the indirect object me, being equivalent to a prepositional phrase, is an adverbial modifier.
A +prepositional phrase+ may be either adjective or adverbial.
In the first sentence, the adverbial absolute phrase, the ship having arrived, is equivalent to the adverbial prepositional phrase, on the arrival of the ship, and defines the time of the action expressed by the verb embarked.
But while the prepositional prefix thus does not carry the alliteration owing to its want of accent, some of the adverbs used in composition are accented, others are unaccented, and others again may be treated either way.
A few adverbs, used as prepositional expressions, are sometimes followed by a suitable preposition and sometimes not; in the latter case the complement is in the accusative, to show the omission (par.
Spite is not a preposition, but an adverb, and to translate the prepositional form "in spite of" it is usually better to use malgraŭ.
Adverbs are not unfrequently followed by prepositions, thus forming prepositional expressions which take the nominative case, like simple prepositions.
If it is a prepositional phrase, determine whether it is used as an adjective or as an adverb.
A phrase introduced by a preposition is called a +Prepositional Phrase+.
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.
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.
