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English prepositions
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9th Grade
01/20/2014

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Term
preposition
Definition
a word that shows the relationship of a noun or a pronoun to another word
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object of a preposition
Definition
the noun or pronoun that a preposition relates another word to
Term
compound prepositions
Definition
prepositions that consist of two or more words
Term
prepositional phrase
Definition
the preposition, it's object, and any modifiers of the object together
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commonly used prepositions
Definition
about, above, across, after, along, among, around, at, before, beside, between, against, within, without, beneath, through, during, under, in, into, over, of, off, to, toward, up, on, near, form, far, except, with, behind, below, down
Term
Example of prepositional phrase in a sentence
Definition
Joe went to the nearest store.
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compound preposition examples
Definition
according to, as of, aside from, because of, by means of, in addition to, in front of, in place of, in spite of, instead of, next to, an account of, out of, prior to
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