VERB | contact | prepose | place before another constituent in the sentence |
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Meaning | place before another constituent in the sentence. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
Example | "English preposes the adpositions | |
Broader | put, set, place, pose, position, lay | Put into a certain place or abstract location |
Nouns | preposition | (linguistics) the placing of one linguistic element before another (as placing a modifier before the word it modifies in a sentence or placing an affix before the base to which it is attached) |
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