Preposition in a sentence

Spanish Due to syntactic flexibility in Spanish, the indirect object of the verb is marked with the preposition "a", although is not considered the object of the preposition, a potentially confusing optical illusion.

And Jones, in the lead-up to a Test match, getting under the skin of his opposite, ending every preposition and veiled insult with a cheeky grin and the word “mate”.

No one cares about correct preposition use, just hit send, goddammit.

On the contrary for China however, has yet to agree with the U.S’ preposition of sending a team of experts to China.

The usual objection to “meet with” is that the preposition is redundant.

A feature found only in Putèr and Vallader (as it is in Castilian Spanish) is the preposition of a direct object, when that direct object is a person or an animal, with a, as in test vis a Peider?

Alternatively, the accusative may be used without a preposition: :ili iros la trian de majo.

An important feature of the locative-case nouns is that they are not accompanied by a preposition (as the example illustrates).

Another wide group of adverbs are formed by gluing preposition to following oblique case form (now often dialectical or deprecated): з from+рідка the rare→зрідка rarely, на onto+долину bottom→надолину downwards.

An unofficial but widely recognized accusative preposition na has become popular with some Esperantists on the internet and may be used in such situations, especially when there is no following noun (ties, accusative na ties).

A single preposition may have a variety of meanings, often including temporal, spatial and abstract.

Based on the meaning the preposition express, they can be divided into prepositions of time, place, manner and quantity.

British author George Orwell (in English People, 1947, cited in OED s.v. lose) criticized an alleged "American tendency" to "burden every verb with a preposition that adds nothing to its meaning (win out, lose out, face up to, etc.)".

Dates were written as a.d. NN, an abbreviation for ante diem NN, meaning "on the Nth (Numerus) day before the named reference day (Nomen)", Syntax note: The Romans often inserted a phrase between a preposition and its noun, and here.

Direction of motion can be expressed either by the accusative case, or by the preposition al (to) with the nominative.

Eastern Armenian also uses the dative case to mark the time of an event, in the same way English uses the preposition at, as in Meet me at nine o' clock.

E.g. domum, "homewards"; Romam, "to Rome" with no preposition needed.

For example, from fari (to do, to make) we get the preposition far (done by).

For example, in the sentence "The black cat sat on a dear friend of mine", the noun phrase the black cat serves as the subject, and the noun phrase a dear friend of mine serves as the complement of the preposition on.

For example, preposition stranding occurs widely in Germanic languages and has a long history in English.