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PREPOSE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they prepose ... he / she / it preposes
Past simple: preposed
Past participle: preposed
-ing form: preposing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Place before another constituent in the sentence
Example:
English preposes the adpositions; Japanese postposes them
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "prepose" is one way to...):
lay; place; pose; position; put; set (put into a certain place or abstract location)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
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))
