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  2. Prepositional adverb - Wikipedia

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    A prepositional adverb is a word – mainly a particle – which is very similar in its form to a preposition but functions as an adverb. Prepositional adverbs occur, for example, in English, German and Dutch. Unlike real prepositions, they occur mainly at the end of a phrase and not before nouns. They also modify the verb, which a preposition ...

  3. English prepositions - Wikipedia

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    For example, the prepositional phrase after midnight can be modified by adverb phrases such as shortly (shortly after midnight) or quite obviously (quite obviously after midnight). [ 14 ] : 643–645 A subset of adverb phrase modifiers of prepositions express degree and occur within prepositional phrases but not other phrasal categories.

  4. Adpositional phrase - Wikipedia

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    The remaining part of the phrase is called the prepositional complement, or sometimes the "object" of the preposition. In English and many other Indo-European languages it takes the form of a noun phrase, such as a noun, pronoun, or gerund, possibly with one or more modifiers. A prepositional phrase can function as an adjective or adverb.

  5. Adposition - Wikipedia

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    The phrase formed by an adposition together with its complement is called an adpositional phrase (or prepositional phrase, postpositional phrase, etc.). Such a phrase can function as an adjective or as an adverb. A less common type of adposition is the circumposition, which consists of two parts that appear on each side of the complement.

  6. English grammar - Wikipedia

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    For example, a verb phrase consists of a verb together with any objects and other dependents; a prepositional phrase consists of a preposition and its complement (and is therefore usually a type of adverbial phrase); and a determiner phrase is a type of noun phrase containing a determiner.

  7. German adverbial phrases - Wikipedia

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    Prepositions do not always have a locative meaning; they can also be modal or temporal adverbs, for example. Prepositional phrases, being adverbial, may be used to describe actions and adjectives. They can also be attributes of a nominal phrase. Ich gehe ins Haus ("I go into the house")

  8. Adverb - Wikipedia

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    They can also modify determiners, prepositional phrases, [2] or whole clauses or sentences, as in the following examples: I bought practically the only fruit (practically modifies the determiner the in the noun phrase, "the only fruit" wherein only is an adjective) She drove us almost to the station (almost modifies the prepositional phrase to ...

  9. English phrasal verbs - Wikipedia

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    A third test, which probes further into the question of the natural division, would be to insert an adverb or adverbial between the verb and the particle/preposition. This is possible with a following prepositonal phrase, but not if the adverbial is intruding between the two parts of a particle verb. [13] a. You can bank without reservation on ...