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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 prepositionplay

  Familiarity information: PREPOSITIONAL PHRASE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PREPOSITIONAL PHRASE (noun)


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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