New answers tagged prepositions
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Preposition on, in & against, on
They are not statements, just phrases, and they could all be correct.
Someone is lying in [the] bed when they are under the covers as though ready for sleep. They are lying on the bed when they are ...
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"On" and "Off" for Lights, Electrical Switches, etc
The use of "on" and "off" to describe the action of controlling the flow of water, such as in a faucet, taps into the basic concepts of enabling and disabling a flow or a process. ...
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Correct usage of preposition "of" with month and year only
Much depends on whether one is (1) simply trying to convey the information as to when something happened, or (2) trying to produce some special stylistic effect.
If (1), one should follow the manual ...
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Which preposition is correct to use in "to conjugate __ 3rd Person Singular"?
The prepositions in and for are the most commonly used when speaking of conjugation of verbs.
For example:
"Arabic verbs conjugate for number and gender..."
-- Colloquial Arabic (Levantine),...
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Correct usage of preposition "of" with month and year only
Western Michigan University says
"If only the month and year are used, do not use commas. Do not use the word "of" between the month and the year."
I think the "of" comes ...
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"because clause" verses "because of noun" verses "because noun"
According to "Because Meaning: Language Change through Iconicity in Internet Speak" by Anneliise Rehn, because has long been "followed by a reduced form, most commonly an Adjective or ...
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Is inversion used in "From this hardship emerged a country"?
Has the prepositional phrase from this hardship exchanged its position with the subject a country that is more capable of coping with inflation?
Or has from this hardship moved to the front, followed ...
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"Advantage of" vs "Advantage to"
Advantage of + an object: The advantages of the cellphone. (The use of “to” here is not possible.)
Advantage to + somebody: Having a lot of patrons has an advantage to him. (The use of “of” is not ...
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Meaning of "How many Euros can be exchanged for 5 USD?"
tl;dr: Euros are being given, not received.
Here’s the first definiton of exchange in the American Heritage Dictionary:
exchange v.tr.
1. To give in return for something received; trade: exchange ...
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Is "when" considered a preposition in this sentence with extraposition and is the chunk an adjunct?
If
This depends on the framework. It's definitely not universally considered a preposition even in modern model-theoretic syntax (Sag, Wasow, Bender 2003, Borsley 2019). But the conditional if is ...
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Is there any difference between "it's dead to me" and "it's dead for me?"
Dead for me means, I don't like or love someone anymore. I've literally stopped any relationship with them.
Dead to you is like assuming someone whom you know doesn't exist yet he is still alive. You ...
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Parsing "…including a problem…, in a characteristically diffident aside, he noted his own 'fleeting vain attempts' to resolve it"
The very last chunk should read
—including a problem that continues to vex them a century and a half after he had noted, in a characteristically diffident aside, his own “fleeting vain attempts” to ...
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Parsing "…including a problem…, in a characteristically diffident aside, he noted his own 'fleeting vain attempts' to resolve it"
There is a sense, though, not to be left unremarked in a prologue, in which this book most properly belongs to Bernhard Riemann, who, in a short life
blighted with much misfortune, gave to his fellow ...
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Parsing "…including a problem…, in a characteristically diffident aside, he noted his own 'fleeting vain attempts' to resolve it"
The parse is:
There is a sense, though, not to be left unremarked in a prologue, in
which this book most properly belongs to Bernhard Riemann, who [,
in a short life blighted with much misfortune,] ...
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In, "Our nation declared independence 246 years ago tomorrow," precisely what does "tomorrow" modify?
Our nation declared independence 246 years ago tomorrow.
I'm not convinced that "246 years ago tomorrow" is, as you seem to be positing, a syntactic constituent. You can, after all, ...
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What meaning of "off" is used in "bedrooms off the hallway"?
From the OED:
off adverb, preposition, noun, & adjective PREPOSITION
II. Of position.
II.8. Opening or turning out of; next to, leading from, not far from. Source: Oxford English Dictionary
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What meaning of "off" is used in "bedrooms off the hallway"?
Google is only giving a limited number of the most common definitions. In a more complete dictionary, a "simple" word like off can have dozens of definitions and usages. For example, ...
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