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The following are single-word prepositions that take clauses as complements. Prepositions marked with an asterisk in this section can only take non-finite clauses as complements. Note that dictionaries and grammars informed by concepts from traditional grammar may categorize these conjunctive prepositions as subordinating conjunctions.
[19]: 657–658 Further, certain prepositions (namely, before/ere, for, and till/until) can take temporal adverbs (such as later, long, one, and recently) as complements, forming prepositional phrases such as for later, until recently, for once, and before long. [14]: 635–643 Prepositions can also take prepositional phrases as complements.
Some lists of common words distinguish between word forms, while others rank all forms of a word as a single lexeme (the form of the word as it would appear in a dictionary). For example, the lexeme be (as in to be) comprises all its conjugations (is, was, am, are, were, etc.), and contractions of those conjugations. [5]
Unlike all the other, true prepositions in the list it cannot, for example, be used before "the". It is more akin to the "a(-)" of such words as "aglow". Moreover, the note (see "an" for usage in front of vowels) is surely a reference to "a/an", the indefinite article; as far as I am aware the prefix "a" is used indifferently before both ...
The English relative words are words in English used to mark a clause, noun phrase or preposition phrase as relative.The central relative words in English include who, whom, whose, which, why, and while, as shown in the following examples, each of which has the relative clause in bold:
The company did not immediately provide a full list of locations set to close. Advance Auto Parts also lowered its full-year outlook for the second quarter in a row, with the company saying on its ...
Election officials filed emergency paperwork to extend the voting time by two hours to 10 p.m. to rectify the issue and ensure all ballots are counted, according to the petition filed in county court.
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