Prepositional in a sentence

Prepositional constructions The genitive case is also used in many prepositional constructions.

Adverbs, with or without the case suffix, are frequently used in place of prepositional phrases: :li iris al sia hejmo (he went to his home) :li iris hejmen (he went home) Both por and pro often translate English 'for'.

Attributive prepositional phrases, which are dependent on nouns, include genitives (la libro de Johano 'John's book') as well as la kato en la ĝardeno 'the cat in the garden' in the example above.

Degree words almost always follow adjectives, and except in verb-final languages adpositions are prepositional.

Ditransitive verbs Ditransitive verbs (sometimes called Vg verbs after the verb give) precede either two noun phrases or a noun phrase and then a prepositional phrase often led by to or for.

For example, states and activities, but not usually achievements, can be used in English with a prepositional for-phrase describing a time duration: "I had a car for five hours", "I shopped for five hours", but not "*I bought a car for five hours".

However, Fowler also goes on to reprise his assertion that prepositional endings are acceptable: "to shrink with horror from ending with a preposition is no more than a foolish superstition".

If the agent is mentioned, it usually appears in a prepositional phrase introduced by the preposition by.

Indirect objects can be noun phrases or prepositional phrases.

In English, most indirect objects can be re-worded as prepositional objects (to..

In general, relative clauses and attributive prepositional phrases follow the noun they modify.

In prepositional phrases the noun is always in the partitive: Some postpositions can also be used as prepositions: Verb forms main Finnish verbs are usually divided into seven groups depending on the stem type.

Latin has an nominative, accusative, genitive, dative, vocative, and ablative, and a locative in certain nouns, but lacks a prepositional and instrumental case.

Note that an indirect object can often be re-worded with a prepositional phrase using "to" or "for", but is no longer an indirect object.

Note that the concept of an indirect object may be rendered by a prepositional phrase.

Often with a nominal or verbal root, the English equivalent is a prepositional phrase : parole (by speech, orally); vide (by sight, visually); reĝe (like a king, royally).

Old English had a nominative, genitive, accusative, dative and instrumental, but not a locative, vocative, or prepositional.

Other constructs that often modify nouns include prepositional phrases (as in "a rebel without a cause"), relative clauses (as in "the man who wasn't there"), and infinitive phrases (as in "a cake to die for").

Prepositional pronouns There are some language forms that stem from the fact that there is no verb to have in Irish.

Since the beginning of the 20th century it isn't included in the lists of standard Lithuanian cases in most grammar books and textbooks, and the prepositional construction į+ accusative is more frequently used today to denote direction.