What does prepositional mean?
Prepositional means Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a preposition..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a preposition..
Although we have concentrated on Prepositions which take zero Complements, NP Complements, or clausal Complements in our discussion above, there seems no reason in principle to exclude the possibility of Prepositions taking prepositional Complements. And it may well be that items such as those italicised below are Prepositions which subcategorise a PP Complement headed by of: (80) (a) He stayed at home because [of the strike] (80) (b) He fell out [of the window] (80) (c) Few people outside [of the immediate family] know (80) (d) %It fell off [of the table] (dialectal)
Use prepositional when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Prepositional means Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a preposition..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Although we have concentrated on Prepositions which take zero Complements, NP Complements, or clausal Complements in our discussion above, there seems no reason in principle to exclude the possibility of Prepositions taking prepositional Complements. And it may well be that items such as those italicised below are Prepositions which subcategorise a PP Complement headed by of: (80) (a) He stayed at home because [of the strike] (80) (b) He fell out [of the window] (80) (c) Few people outside [of the immediate family] know (80) (d) %It fell off [of the table] (dialectal)
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