{"id":381,"date":"2021-12-22T17:54:21","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T17:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mdr.foobrdigital.com\/?p=381"},"modified":"2021-12-22T17:54:21","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T17:54:21","slug":"definition-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/22\/definition-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Definition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"has-text-align-left has-black-color has-text-color has-extra-large-font-size wp-block-heading\" style=\"line-height:1.6\">What is&nbsp;preposition<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">A&nbsp;preposition&nbsp;is a word that indicates the relationship between a&nbsp;noun&nbsp;and the other words of a sentence. They explain relationships of sequence, space, and logic between the object of the sentence and the rest of the sentence. They help us understand order, time connections, and positions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"has-extra-large-font-size wp-block-heading\">Example:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"padding: 10px,10px,10px,10px; has-background has-extra-large-font-size\" style=\"background-color:#eeeeee\"><li>I am going\u00a0to\u00a0Canada.<\/li><li>Alex threw a stone\u00a0into\u00a0the pond.<\/li><li>The present is\u00a0inside\u00a0the box.<\/li><li>They have gone\u00a0out\u00a0of\u00a0the town.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\" style=\"line-height:1.6\">There are a few interesting&nbsp;linguistic facts&nbsp;about prepositions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>First,<\/strong> they are a&nbsp;<em>closed class of words&nbsp;<\/em>which means no new preposition gets added to the language. We use a fixed set of prepositions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Second,<\/strong>&nbsp;prepositions do not have any other form. They cannot be plural, possessive, inflection, or anything else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Third,<\/strong>&nbsp;most of the prepositions have many different contextual and natural uses. So, it is easy to be confused about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Fourth,<\/strong>&nbsp;sometimes a preposition works as nouns, adjectives, and adverbs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"line-height:1.5\">Prepositions can be of one, two, three, or even more words. Prepositions with two or more words are called&nbsp;phrasal prepositions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>There are some commonly used phrasal prepositions:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"line-height:1.5\">because of, in case of, instead of, by way of, on behalf of, on account of, in care of, in spite of, on the side of, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is&nbsp;preposition A&nbsp;preposition&nbsp;is a word that indicates the relationship between a&nbsp;noun&nbsp;and the other words of a sentence. They explain relationships of sequence, space, and logic between the object of the sentence and the rest of the sentence. They help us understand order, time connections, and positions. Example: I am going\u00a0to\u00a0Canada. Alex threw a stone\u00a0into\u00a0the pond. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}