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PREPOSITIONAL PHRASE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does prepositional phrase mean?
• PREPOSITIONAL PHRASE (noun)
The noun PREPOSITIONAL PHRASE has 1 sense:
1. a phrase beginning with a preposition
Familiarity information: PREPOSITIONAL PHRASE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A phrase beginning with a preposition
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("prepositional phrase" is a kind of...):
phrase (an expression consisting of one or more words forming a grammatical constituent of a sentence)
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