Here’s Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary’s definition of preposition: “a function word that typically combines with a noun phrase to form a phrase which usually expresses a ...

A preposition takes as its object a noun phrase — a noun or pronoun with or without modifiers. “For” is a preposition, but “awhile” isn’t a noun. It’s an adverb.

In grammar, a word belongs to a class if it has the properties of that class. A preposition heads a prepositional phrase, and usually takes a noun phrase as its complement.

This article explores lexical polysemy through an in-depth examination of the English preposition over. Working within a cognitive linguistic framework, the present study illustrates the nonarbitrary ...

Unhistory A suspiciously long prepositional phrase wasn`t the only irregularity that tipped a journalism grad student onto a mystery at Northwestern University. Mounted on a large rock on the ...