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  2. List of English prepositions - Wikipedia

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    The following are single-word intransitive prepositions. This portion of the list includes only prepositions that are always intransitive; prepositions that can occur with or without noun phrase complements (that is, transitively or intransitively) are listed with the prototypical prepositions.

  3. English prepositions - Wikipedia

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    In the prepositional phrase apart from Jill, for example, the preposition apart requires that the complement include the preposition from. In the prepositional phrase since before the war, however, the preposition since does not require the preposition before and could have instead been something else, such as since after the war. [14]: 635–643

  4. English grammar - Wikipedia

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    phrases formed by the determiner the with an adjective, as in the homeless, the English (these are plural phrases referring to homeless people or English people in general); phrases with a pronoun rather than a noun as the head (see below); phrases consisting just of a possessive; infinitive and gerund phrases, in certain positions;

  5. Syntactic category - Wikipedia

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    Adjective phrase (AP), adverb phrase (AdvP), adposition phrase (PP), noun phrase (NP), verb phrase (VP), etc. In terms of phrase structure rules , phrasal categories can occur to the left of the arrow while lexical categories cannot, e.g. NP → D N. Traditionally, a phrasal category should consist of two or more words, although conventions ...

  6. Wh-movement - Wikipedia

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    The phrase structure for wh-words in Bulgarian would look like is shown in Figure 1 below, where a wh-cluster is formed under [Spec-CP]. Figure 1. Phrase structure of multiple wh-movement in Bulgarian. In Bulgarian and Romanian, a wh-element is attracted into [Spec-CP] and the other wh-elements are adjoined into the first wh-word in [Spec-CP]. [32]

  7. English phrasal verbs - Wikipedia

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    – into is a preposition that introduces the prepositional phrase into an old friend. d. She takes after her mother. – after is a preposition that introduces the prepositional phrase after her mother. e. Sam passes for a linguist. – for is a preposition that introduces the prepositional phrase for a linguist. f. You should stand by your ...

  8. Phrase - Wikipedia

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    In the following phrases the head-word, or head, is bolded: too slowly — Adverb phrase (AdvP); the head is an adverb very happy — Adjective phrase (AP); the head is an adjective the massive dinosaur — Noun phrase (NP); the head is a noun (but see below for the determiner phrase analysis) at lunch — Preposition phrase (PP); the head is a ...

  9. List of linguistic example sentences - Wikipedia

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    The same phrase as in Persian: "Казнить нельзя помиловать" can be interpreted as "Казнить нельзя, помиловать" or as "Казнить, нельзя помиловать", which means respectively "Executing is impossible/disallowed, [you should] pardon" and "Execute her/him, pardon is impossible ...