phrasal preposition

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• phrasal preposition — noun A preposition composed of several words rather than just one. In English, most phrasal prepositions consist of an adverbial followed by a one word preposition …   Wiktionary

• phrasal — adjective a) Referring to, or used in the manner of, a phrase. phrasal preposition b) Being a phrase …   Wiktionary

• Preposition stranding — Preposition stranding, sometimes called P stranding, is the syntactic construction in which a preposition with an object occurs somewhere other than immediately adjacent to its object. (The preposition is then described as stranded or hanging.)… …   Wikipedia

• phrasal verbs — 1. A phrasal verb is a combination of verb and adverb or preposition (or both) such as come about, draw up, put up with, and work out. Phrasal verbs formed with adverbs can be either transitive (i.e. take an object, as in He drew up a chair) or… …   Modern English usage

• preposition — 1. A preposition is a word such as after, in, to, and with, which usually stands before a noun or pronoun and establishes its relation to what goes before (the man on the platform / came after dinner / What did you do it for?). The superstition… …   Modern English usage

• phrasal verb — n a group of words that is used like a verb and consists of a verb with an adverb or ↑preposition after it, for example set off or look after . In this dictionary, phrasal verbs are marked phr v …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• phrasal verb — noun count a combination of words that is used like a verb and consists of a verb and an adverb or preposition, for example give in or come up with …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• phrasal verb — ► NOUN Grammar ▪ an idiomatic phrase consisting of a verb and an adverb or preposition, as in break down or see to …   English terms dictionary

• Phrasal verb — A phrasal verb is a combination of a verb and a preposition, a verb and an adverb, or a verb with both an adverb and a preposition, any of which are part of the syntax of the sentence, and so are a complete semantic unit. Sentences, however, may… …   Wikipedia

• Preposition and postposition — Prepositions (or more generally, adpositions, see below) are a grammatically distinct class of words whose most central members characteristically express spatial relations (such as the English words in, under, toward) or serve to mark various… …   Wikipedia

• Phrasal verbs — ◊ GRAMMAR A phrasal verb is a combination of a verb and an adverb, a verb and a preposition, or a verb, an adverb, and a preposition, which together have a single meaning. Phrasal verbs extend the usual meaning of the verb or create a new meaning …   Useful english dictionary