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    /ˌprepəˈzɪʃən/

    a word such as "in", "on", "at", or "to" that is put before a noun, a pronoun, or an -ing word to show place, time, direction, and so on. In "the trees in the park", "in" is a preposition.

    介系詞

    複數 prepositions

    例句逐字對照、搭配詞、易混淆字

    這一義的完整解析還沒打開。訂閱後可以看到例句怎麼拆、常跟哪些字一起出現， 以及容易跟它搞混的字。

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核心畫面

You can think of it as the small word that sets one thing in relation to another — where it sits, when it happens, which way it goes. In "the trees in the park", the word in tells you how the trees stand to the park.

可以想成那個負責「擺位置」的小字：它站在名詞、代名詞或 -ing 形式的前面，說明一個東西相對於另一個東西在哪裡、在…更多收起可以想成那個負責「擺位置」的小字：它站在名詞、代名詞或 -ing 形式的前面，說明一個東西相對於另一個東西在哪裡、在什麼時候、往哪個方向。像 the trees in the park，in 就是在講樹和公園之間的關係。in、on、at、to 都屬於這一類，字本身很短，卻是整句話的關節。

原始詞典資料4 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

prepositionnoun詞源 1/ˌpɹɛpəˈzɪʃən/

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    grammarhuman-scienceslinguisticsAny of a class of non-inflecting words and multiword terms typically employed to connect a following noun or a pronoun, in an adjectival or adverbial sense, with some other word: a particle used with a noun or pronoun (in English always in the objective case) to make a phrase limiting some other word.

    • 322. The parts of speech which are neither declined nor conjugated, are called by the general name of particles. 323. They are adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections.
    • And in (121) below, we see that when a wh-NP is used as the Object of a Preposition, the whole Prepositional Phrase can undergo WH MOVEMENT: (121) (a) [To whom] can I send this letter —? (121) (b) [About what] are they quarrelling —? (121) (c) [In which book] did you read about it —?
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    grammarhuman-scienceslinguisticsAn adposition.

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    obsoleteA proposition; an exposition; a discourse.

    • […] he made a longe preposicion & oracion cōcernynge yͤ allegiaūce which he exortyd his lordes to owe

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。