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  2. English prepositions - Wikipedia

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    Both prepositions and verbs license NP objects, but in most cases, the distinction is clear because verbs conjugate, and prepositions do not. There are, however, a number of prepositions derived from participial verb forms (e.g., come or barring), which could be confused with verbs.

  3. 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.

  4. Syntactic category - Wikipedia

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    The lexical categories that a given grammar assumes will likely vary from this list. Certainly numerous subcategories can be acknowledged. For instance, one can view pronouns as a subtype of noun, and verbs can be divided into finite verbs and non-finite verbs (e.g. gerund, infinitive, participle, etc.).

  5. Is a preposition something you can end a sentence with? - AOL

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    What is a preposition? Prepositions are typically small, common words that show the relationship between a noun or pronoun and another element in a clause. These terms can indicate the direction ...

  6. English grammar - Wikipedia

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    A verb together with its dependents, excluding its subject, may be identified as a verb phrase (although this concept is not acknowledged in all theories of grammar [23]). A verb phrase headed by a finite verb may also be called a predicate. The dependents may be objects, complements, and modifiers (adverbs or adverbial phrases).

  7. Phrase structure rules - Wikipedia

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    The first rule reads: A S consists of a NP (noun phrase) followed by a VP (verb phrase). The second rule reads: A noun phrase consists of an optional Det followed by a N (noun). The third rule means that a N (noun) can be preceded by an optional AP (adjective phrase) and followed by an optional PP (prepositional phrase). The round brackets ...

  8. English phrasal verbs - Wikipedia

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    Many verbs can be complemented by a prepositional phrase that functions adverbially: a. Don't stand on the table. This construction is sometimes also taught as a phrasal verb, but only when the combination of verb and preposition is not intuitive to the learner: b. Don't stand on ceremony. Further examples: c. I ran into an old friend.

  9. Adposition - Wikipedia

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    Many English phrasal verbs contain particles that are used adverbially, even though they mostly have the form of a preposition (such words may be called prepositional adverbs). Examples are on in carry on , get on , etc., and over in take over , fall over , and so on.