A preposition heads a prepositional phrase, and usually takes a noun phrase as its complement. And so in "Notwithstanding the rain, it was an excellent night out", "notwithstanding" can only be a ...

If a preposition takes an object and is, as Merriam’s notes, “usually followed by” that object, it calls into question a sentence like “What did you do that for,” in which the ...

One of the most interesting questions I’ve gotten recently was from a colleague who had come across the phrase “one of the living writers who really matter.” A Word, Please: Narrowing down ...

A preposition phrase begins with a preposition. It could be a preposition of time , place or direction . So a preposition phrase starts with words such as ‘at’, ‘on’, ‘during’, ‘up ...

A radical scientific shake-up of the notion of a preposition is a case in point. ... (before heads a phrase that functions as a temporal adjunct), and the meaning is unitary as well.

The phrase is formed by a double use of the preposition ‘nach’ - a little word with a lot of meanings. Related to the word nah (near) and a cognate of the English ‘nigh’, ‘nach’ refers ...

Using a preposition phrase as the wh-phrase in an open interrogative content clause is always strikingly awkward (I didn’t know from which book I should quote is far worse than I didn’t know ...