Crossword-Solution: PREPOSITION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Preposition | n. | A word employed to connect a noun or a pronoun, in an adjectival or adverbial sense, with some other word; a particle used with a noun or pronoun (in English always in the objective case) to make a phrase limiting some other word; -- so called because usually placed before the word with which it is phrased; as, a bridge of iron; he comes from town; it is good for food; he escaped by running. |
| Preposition | n. | A proposition; an exposition; a discourse. |
We have 7 clues for the answer “PREPOSITION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Part of speech some say shouldn't end a sentence, but that does end each starred answer | 1 answer |
| One could be off or on | 1 answer |
| On or about | 5 answers |
| SPEECH, part of | 8 answers |
| Adjunct | 57 answers |
| appendage | 66 answers |
| forerunner | 69 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ECAZME
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with PREPOSITION (5)
The wondrous power of flattery in _passados_ at woman is a perception so universal as to be remarked upon by many people almost as automatically as they repeat a proverb, or say that they are Christians and the like, without thinking much of the enormous corollaries which spring from the preposition.
This is a shortened form of the preposition an which was used before the vowel sound); as in a hunting, a building, a begging.
That beside be used only and always as a preposition, with the original meaning ½by the side of; ¸ as, to sit beside a fountain; or with the closely allied meaning ½aside from¸, ½apart from¸, or ½out of¸; as, this is beside our present purpose; to be beside one's self with joy.
You also tried to release the objective case from its thraldom to the preposition, and it is written that servants should obey their masters.
Page 588: The preposition “to” is missing from the following phrase: “she drew the ivory from her gown and gave it me.” “Gave it to me” sounds better.
Quotes with PREPOSITION (3)
All I could determine was that it must have been a nice thing to see if it was a house you were thinking about moving into. But not so nice if it was the house you were moving out from. I could practically hear Mr Collins, who had taught my fifth-grade English class and was still the most intimidating teacher I'd ever had, yelling at me. "Amy Curry," I could still hear him intoning, "never end a sentence with a preposition!" Irked that after six hears he was still mentally co…
Oh God how subtle he would have to be, how cunning... No paragraph, no phrase even of the thousands the book must contain could strike a discordant note, be less than fully imagined, an entire novel's worth of thought would have to be expended on each one. His attention had only to lapse for a moment, between preposition and object, colophon and chapter heading, for dead spots to appear like gangrene that would rot the whole. Silkworms didn't work as finely or as patiently as…
From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: WSJ.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2023).