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The Czech language uses the locative case to denote location (v České republice, 'in the Czech Republic'), but as in the Russian language, the locative case may be used after certain prepositions with meanings other than location (o Praze, 'about Prague', po revoluci, 'after the revolution').
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.
Though the prototypical preposition is a single word that precedes a noun phrase complement and expresses spatial relations, the category of preposition includes more than this limited notion (see English prepositions § History of the concept in English). Prepositions can be categorized according to whether the preposition takes a complement ...
Preposition (relates) a word that relates words to each other in a phrase or sentence and aids in syntactic context (in, of). Prepositions show the relationship between a noun or a pronoun with another word in the sentence. Conjunction (connects) a syntactic connector; links words, phrases, or clauses (and, but). Conjunctions connect words or ...
One result of those slack prices is that U.S. average pump prices for gasoline fell to $3.03 a gallon this week, the lowest since May, 2021 and well down from their record peak of $5.02 from June ...
Frigid, then mild. After wind chills dipped below zero across the mountains of the Appalachians Friday, conditions are expected to improve through the next couple of days as southwesterly winds ...
Mufasa was one of James Earl Jones' most iconic roles, and from the start, Disney's new "Lion King" movie pays tribute to his legacy.
Prepositional phrases are also placed beneath the word they modify; the preposition goes on a slanted line and the slanted line leads to a horizontal line on which the object of the preposition is placed. These basic diagramming conventions are augmented for other types of sentence structures, e.g. for coordination and subordinate clauses.